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Contents Regional News News

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Al-Shorouk Printing’s Profit Jumped by 170 % in 2020

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Sisi Inaugurates Secured, Smart Documents Complex

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Sheikh Zayed Book Fair Kicks off

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Danish Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Visits King Fahd Complex for Printing the Holy Quran

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Additive MEA Conference and Awards 2021 The Abu Dhabi Judicial Department Outsources its Printing Works Saudi Printing and Packaging Company is on the Rebound

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International news 18

Heidelberg Increases Capacity in China

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Manroland Sheetfed Snaps up Heidelberg’s “Mr Large Format”

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Agfa Increases Prices for its Offset Plates

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Cover Story

“Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt” to be Unveiled at Cairo International Book Fair

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The Upcoming Riyadh Book Fair is Open for Participation

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KSA: MEPCO Profits Skyrocket and Announces Non-distribution of Dividends

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A Round up on Bestselling Arabic Books

One on One 24

Former COO of Kimoha Appointed as CEO Siegwerk India

DTM Print

“Brands Favour Print’s Value”

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GPP Hosts Second Virtual Industry Round Table

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Digital Labels in Jordan Opts for BOBST

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UAE Packaging Market is Slated to Experience Formidable Growth

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Saudi Paper Turns to Net Profit in 2020

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Modular 3D-Printed Majlis House is a Marvel

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Case Study 28

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Editor's Note Printed Word Still Matters

MF-02-1824692 ISSN 2304-117X The Comprehensive Monthly Magazine Dedicated To The Graphic Arts Industry Print Professionals Professionals In InThe TheMiddle MiddleEast East

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There was a time when pundits came up with dooms day scenario about the imminent death of printed books. When e readers were first introduced to the market a sense of excitement took hold of tech enthusiasts and they all started the count down for the day that books were to be displayed only in confinement of museums and libraries. Well, it didn’t happen. Book publishing is still strong as ever and recent pandemic gave it a boost as well. Last year Amazon sold more than 33 million titles all over the world. In our region where printed word was born books are becoming more popular as well. In this issue we have introduced a series of best seller books by Arab writers.

Another prediction that didn’t come true was the paperless office. Now we can confidently lay that myth to rest. Although the advent of digital technology and now the Coronavirus crisis drove a huge portion of population to do their shopping online and work from home but paper consumption is on the rise. Meanwhile the pandemic has caused dramatic shifts in operating patterns within the paper industry, which have resulted in fluctuations in pulp and paper supply and demand, and recurring price increases. Many paper manufacturers have already announced price increase.

Sappi Europe announces a price increase for all its packaging and specialty paper grades by 7 – 11% valid for deliveries from 1 April 2021. Sharply rising input costs, particularly relevant to pulp and energy in combination with very high freight rates due to global logistic constraints make price increases unavoidable.

To cut a long story short the printed word and its carrier which is paper will stay with us for a long time. That is a prediction you can count on.

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Al-Shorouk Printing’s Profit Jumped by 170 % in 2020

The company’s sales amounted to 774 million pounds

At the beginning of this week, Shorouk for Modern Printing and Packaging Company in Egypt announced the results of its consolidated and independent business during the year 2020, and the results of the company’s combined business showed a significant growth in net profit, jumping about 169.5%, compared to 2019.

According to the company’s announcement, the combined net profits for the year 2020 amounted

to 162.72 million pounds, compared to 60.36 million pounds in 2019.

Independent business results for the same period showed a net profit of 124.10 million pounds, compared to 80.43 million pounds during the comparative period.

The company’s sales in the independent financial statements amounted to 774 million pounds, compared to 756 million pounds in 2019.

Al-Shorouk Modern Printing and Packaging Company – an

Egyptian joint stock company – was established according to the decision of the President of the General Authority for Investment and Free Zones in 1999. The company kick started its activity in October 2000 as a one stop shop for a wide range of printing jobs including packaging and commercial printing.

The merger of Al-Shorouk Printing Press and Al-Shorouq Modern Printing and Packaging Company took place in 2001.

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Al Bayader Plans Big for Future

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Al Bayader International is a packaging business with big ambitions. The company has grown in number across the GCC to become an international leader in manufacturing and supplying comprehensive food packaging solutions. With a dedicated team of around 900 employees and the support of over 400 business partners, 9000 happy business customers and millions of consumers the company delivers added value to the global food and beverage industries and offer an extensive 1,700+ product portfolio, which represents the backbone of retail and foodservice sectors.

The company’s newly expanded manufacturing facility in Jebel Ali was inaugurated recently by Her Excellency Mariam AlMheiri, UAE Minister of State for Food & Water Security, His Excellency Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem, Group Chairman and CEO of DP World and Massimo Baggi, Swiss Ambassador to the UAE. Special guest Mr. Mohammed Al Muallem, CEO & Managing Director of DP

World UAE, also attended the opening.

This is part of a significant AED200 million investment for a major industrial and retail expansion. The expanded plant doubles the production capacity to 18,000 tons per annum of food packaging solutions, taking the overall production capacity across our six manufacturing facilities in the UAE and Qatar to 31,000 tons per annum. As the UAE prepares for the next 50 years,

with a stronger focus on domestic manufacturing and in-country value creation, we are privileged to play our role in strengthening the food packaging industry.

The inauguration of the facility was followed by a tour of the factory by the visiting guests.

Al Bayader CEO. Nidal Haddad provided an overview of the advanced machinery at the plant as well as the sustainability features integrated within the facility to make it eco-friendly.

Sisi Inaugurates Secured, Smart Documents Complex Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah el Sisi hailed the inauguration of the Secured and Smart Documents Complex which is considered a giant technological edifice.

On his social media page on Wednesday, he said the complex backs the state’s digitization strategy which falls within the framework of efforts to realize allout development.

The complex, a giant technology fortress, has the latest technical potentials in issuing all governmental documents at the highest security level, such as educational certificates, passports and others. The complex is the largest in the Middle East and Africa’.

The president also visited a paper and pulp manufacturing fully-equipped lab that includes the latest equipment needed for testing chemicals, bleaches and colors added to the pulp as well as fiber shapes.

During his visit President Sisi was briefed by Eng. Walaa el Gohari on the pulping process where paper is produced and all production stages.

The president inspected a plant for producing 2D and 3D holographic images, which are

used for securing all types of documents.

He also visited the printing center of secured cards, which prints different kinds of plastic products, such as smart cards and passports.

Meanwhile Education Minister Tarek Shawki said cooperation with the new complex will help the ministry handle a system that consists of 23 million students, 55,000 schools and 1.6 million teachers Sisi stressed that the personal

information about each citizen is highly sensitive, adding the state authorities shall be allowed to only view information that are related to it. He also added, “The technological capability has merits and demerits that the state should be aware of. Digitizing the state and achieving the governance of procedures contribute to curbing corruption.”

The Secured and Smart Complex comes at a cost of up to LE 1 billion.

The complex has the state of the art technology to produce all governmental documents

Sheikh Zayed Book Fair Kicks off The seventh edition of the Sheikh Zayed Book Fair in Egypt kicked off yesterday, April 1. The exhibition runs until April 12 at Entrance 2 in Sheikh Zayed City. The exhibition includes many artistic and cultural

events and activities for children.

The exhibition is being held under the patronage of the Prime Minister, Dr. Mostafa Madbouly, Inès Abdel Daïm, Minister of Culture, the Egyptian Publishers Union, Dr. Asim

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Al-Jazzar, Minister of Housing and Urban Communities, and Major General Ahmed Rashid, Governor of Giza, and is organized by the Zayed Foundation for Creativity and Development.

“The exhibition includes more than 100 publishing houses which display their products on an area of 5,000 meters, and all precautionary measures to battle the global pandemic will be strictly implemented in all activities of the exhibition,” said Director of the exhibition, Mahmoud Abdel-Nabi and added, “Crème de la crème of Egyptian publishers including Dar El Shorouk, Egypt’s Renaissance, Egyptian Lebanese House for Publishing and Distribution, Don, Sama, Tashkeel and others are participating in the event.”

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Danish Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Visits King Fahd Complex for Printing the Holy Quran Ambassador of the Kingdom of Denmark to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Ole Moesby visited King Fahd Complex for Printing the Holy Quran in Madinah.

The Danish Ambassador was received by Secretary General of the complex Sheikh Talal bin Razen Al-Rehaily.

He toured the complex and its departments, and he was briefed on the complex’s publications.

He expressed his thanks to the Government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for serving the Holy Quran, praising the complex’s advanced technologies and services, as well as the annual production of more than 18 million copies which are provided free of charge to all countries around the world.

The Ambassador was greeted by Secretary General of the complex

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Additive MEA Conference and Awards 2021

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Additive Middle East and Africa User Conference holds a pillar in bringing the keynotes, presentations, exhibitions and Awards Ceremony on September 13th– 14th Dubai, United Arab

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The Abu Dhabi Judicial Department Outsources its Printing Works The Abu Dhabi Judicial Department announced it will grant printing centers nationwide licenses to provide three main services. The department will grant printing centers that hold license, the right to obtain an electronic registration services license for notary and notary services as well as public prosecution services licenses.

The Abu Dhabi Judicial Department called on printing centers wishing to obtain licenses for these services, whether one or all of them, to register at the Abu Dhabi Judicial Department website (www.adjd.gov.ae), fill out the registration form and fulfill the required conditions.

The move comes in line with the Abu Dhabi Judicial Department’s plan to provide its services in an accessible

and easy way to all interested parties, as well as strengthening the partnership between the public and private sectors.

Upon completion of the approval of the selected printing centers, the department will provide the

residents of options from the printing centers spread across the country, in order to facilitate their access to the service.

This step represents a major shift in the provision of services at the Abu Dhabi Judicial Department.

Abu Dhabi Judicial Department plans to provide its services in an accessible and easy way

Saudi Printing and Packaging Company is on the Rebound

6.14 million riyals, which represents 1.02% of the capital.

The total comprehensive loss during the current period

amounted to 21.16 million riyals compared to 31.21 million riyals for the same period of the previous year, with a decrease of 32.19%.

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Saudi Printing and Packaging Company announced its annual financial results for 2020, reducing its losses by 47%.

The company said that its losses amounted to 20.54 million riyals, compared to 38.76 million riyals during the same period last year.

The main reason for the decrease in the gross profit is the decrease in sales, and the increase in operating profit is due to the reduction of selling and marketing expenses and general and administrative expenses.

Sales during 2020 amounted to 767.69 million riyals compared to 924.34 million riyals for the same period of the previous year, a decrease of 16.95%.

Shareholders’ equity during the current period amounted to 702.74 million riyals compared to 0723.9 million riyals for the same period of the previous year, a decrease of 2.92%.

Accumulated losses amounted to

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“Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt” to be Unveiled at Cairo International Book Fair

The book will be presented to the public at subsidized price

The Supreme Cultural Committee of the 52nd Cairo International Book Fair, which is scheduled to take place from June 30 until July 15, 2021, announced launch of the “Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt”

by Selim Hassan at the exhibition.

The book will be presented to the public at subsidized price The committee headed by Dr. Haitham Al-Hajj Ali met last Tuesday at the headquarters of the Egyptian General Book.

A number of other decision was taken during meeting including a mascot for the children’s book fair and holding a special event to commemorate the centenary of the writer and translator Tharwat Okasha and the poet Salah Abdel Sabour.

The Upcoming Riyadh Book Fair is Open for Participation

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Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Culture has opened registration for publishing houses wishing to participate in the Riyadh International Book Fair to be held from 1 to 10 October 2021. For the first time The Literature, Publishing and Translation Commission is responsible for organizing the exhibition.

The Ministry invited publishing houses wishing to participate in the commitment to fill out the form and

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submit them to organizer of the event. More than 1000 publishing houses will showcase their offering in more than 36 thousand square meters of exhibition space.

The Riyadh International Book Fair is held annually in Riyadh, the capital city of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. It provides a platform for companies, institutions and individuals with interest in books and the publication industry to display their products and

services. The primary role of the fair is to support society’s reading habits and skills, raise cultural, literary and artistic awareness.

It also encourages individuals to visit, purchase books, attend conferences, workshops and seminars related to culture, literature, and art. Since its establishment -about 40 years agothe Riyadh International Book Fair has built its reputation as a major event in the Arab intellectual scene.

It is one of the top leading Arab book fairs in terms of visitor count, sales volume and the diversity of cultural programs. It attracts publications from prominent Saudi, Arab, and international publishing houses and writers each year. In 2019, the organization and administration of the fair was assigned to the Ministry of Culture. The Ministry is working on building the fair’s infrastructure to complement the objectives outlined in Vision 2030 and the cultural vision launched by the Ministry of Culture in 2019. It also aspires to support the fair on the global stage.

KSA: MEPCO Profits Skyrocket and Announces Non-distribution of Dividends The profits of the Middle East Paper Manufacturing and Production Company (MEPCO) jumped by 229.2% during the 2020.

According to company data, net profit amounted to 20.18 million riyals after zakat and tax, compared to 6.13 million riyals 2019.

MEPCO attributed the profit growth to increase in sales revenues, lower cost of sales per ton, a decrease in selling and distribution expenses, a decrease in general and administrative expenses, a decrease in the fair value loss in derivative financial instruments, a decrease in the cost of financing, despite the decline in average selling prices, and decrease in other expenses.

The company’s revenues

increased by 4.86% in 2020 to 724.69 million riyals, compared to 691.08 million riyals in 2019.

MEPCO’s profits increased 20.3% during the fourth quarter of 2020 to 4.23 million riyals after zakat and tax, compared to 3.52 million riyals in the same quarter of 2019.

Last year, the firm signed a deal to acquire a plot of land in King Abdullah Economic City (KAEC), where it plans to build a tissue jumbo roll factory.

The manufacturing facility is expected to have an installed capacity of 60,000 tons per year and will cost around 338 million riyals.

In a separate statement for the company, the Board of Directors recommended non-distribution of cash dividends to shareholders for the fiscal year 2020 in order to support the expansion projects of the company that it is currently underway.

MEPCO said that this recommendation will be presented for a vote at the next General Assembly meeting.

MEPCO attributed the profit growth to increase in sales revenues

Former COO of Kimoha Appointed as CEO Siegwerk India Apart from handling responsibilities in Maintenance, Projects, Operations, and General Management in Huhtamaki PPL over a tenure of 15 years, Karanth has headed P&L responsibility in Rotopack UAE and the India BU of Weener Plastics, Netherlands.

Commenting on the appointment, Ashish Pradhan, President Asia, Siegwerk, said, “We are confident that Siegwerk India will benefit immensely under the leadership of Ramakrishna.

His extensive packaging industry knowledge and experience will help Siegwerk India achieve greater success”.

Ramakrishna Karanth, CEO, Siegwerk India, said, “I am excited to join the Siegwerk India team and look forward to contributing towards the continued success and growth of Siegwerk in India.

The Indian Packaging segment is

seeing an evolving, great growth story and my efforts will be to work with the Siegwerk team to participate in this growth, with a focused approach on sustainability and environmentfriendly solutions.”

Siegwerk employs around 5,000 people worldwide in more than 30 country organisations and is headquartered at Siegburg in Germany.

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Siegwerk, a leading supplier of printing inks for packaging applications and labels, has announced the appointment of Ramakrishna Karanth as CEO of Siegwerk India. Recently, the company appointed Ashish Pradhan as President Asia, Siegwerk.

Prior to this role, Karath was the COO at Kimoha Entrepreneurs FZCO, where he was responsible for the profitability of business units in UAE and Saudi Arabia.

Karanth’s experience spans over 30 years, starting with a Short Service Commissioned tenure of 6 years with the Indian Air Force in Surface to Air Missiles division and a total industrial experience of 28 years, according to a statement.

He has held several leadership positions with packaging companies both in and outside India.

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GPP Hosts Second Virtual Industry Round Table

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The panel agreed that the pandemic had resulted in significant positive changes to the printing industry

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Tarsus Group, the organizer of Gulf Print & Pack 2021, recently hosted the second of its virtual round table discussions with top representatives from the commercial and wide-format printing industry in the Middle East.

Aimed at keeping the region’s industry connected in the months leading up to the December show, this second session, “Smart use of digital print technologies in the MEA region”, took place on Wednesday 24 February. Topics discussed included: how individual large-format printing businesses had been affected by the Covid-19 pandemic; exploring if digital printers / print service providers in MEA have identified new markets during this time; digital printing and textiles; regional trends in selecting / buying machinery; hybrid printing; digital package printing; automation; and demographic trends.

Four expert panelists from the region took part in the lively discussion: Ayman Aly, senior marketing manager, Canon Middle East; Halim El-Khoury, business manager, large format printing, UAE & KSA, HP; Philippe Hosni, general manager, Helliozid Océ Emirates; and Shihab Zubair, regional sales manager, Epson Europe. While Akanksha Meena, editor, Labels and Labeling Middle East and North Africa / Brand Print / Gulf Print & Pack, chaired the session.

Overall, the panel agreed that the pandemic had resulted in significant positive changes to the printing industry, creating opportunities to adapt and be flexible. It had also encouraged customers and suppliers alike to rethink short-term over long-term priorities and ways of working. A number of key factors that had helped printing remain resilient in recent months were credited with the current high level of trust in the industry.

This included a number of market segments which have

performed particularly well and proved popular with customers; digital signage, Covid applications such as in-office safety signage, vinyl printing, and entry-level consumer printing. Short-run personalised label printing was also noted as a major growth area, with an increasing move from conventional to digital printing, while hybrid too was seen as an area with potential, given its space-saving benefits. The panel also agreed that service support and maintenance is being done increasingly via software and online, while the lack of face-toface contact with customers and working from home have driven automation technology.

Digital label and package printing – corrugated in particular – was likewise regarded as one of the most positively impacted applications, driven by the growth in e-commerce following the temporary closure of shopping malls and changing consumer habits. The panel agreed that most vendors would be looking at this as a major growth area as reversing these trends will be difficult. At the same time, the impact on the retail industry had also created opportunity, with significant effort being put into signage campaigns and in-store promotion, to entice customers back into shops.

Andy Thomas-Emans, strategic director, Labelexpo / Gulf Print & Pack, said of the session: “We are delighted to see our virtual

round table discussions gathering momentum, with a successful second open discussion with the commercial and wideformat printing industry in the MEA region. It’s incredibly encouraging to hear that smart digital technologies continue to flourish, since these will be vitally important as we move into the post-Covid recovery phase.”

Echoing this, Ayman Ali said: “Today, we are witnessing a shift from traditional Offsets to digital printing, and this is mainly due to growing customer demands when it comes to faster turnaround times and shorter runs. As we see increasing demand, this segment is poised to create new growth opportunities in 2021 and beyond. This discussion was an opportunity for us to discuss this growth and further examine regional markets trends, as well as outlook and technology opportunities. At Canon Middle East, we continue to leverage cutting-edge digital print tools in line with customer needs.”

Thomas-Emans added: “I’d like to thank our panelists for taking part and we look forward to running the next Gulf Print & Pack hosted discussion in the coming weeks. It’s vitally important that the industry continues to engage and exchange ideas openly while we cannot meet face to face, so any supplier or printer keen to take part in future round table sessions is encouraged to get in touch with us.

Digital Labels in Jordan Opts for BOBST One of the largest label printing companies in the Middle East, Digital Labels has installed the first BOBST NOVA SX 550 solventless laminator in the region to speed up production and offer a sustainable, cost-effective solution to its customers. The machine was put into operation via remote support from Bobst Italia to comply with COVID-19 restrictions.

Amman-based Digital Labels is a specialist in self-adhesive, in-mould, and wraparound labels, and shrink sleeves. First established in 2004, the company has expanded operations significantly over the past few years as it has identified new and profitable market sectors. This includes diversifying into flexible packaging to deliver pouches, flow wrap, liners and bags to customers in the food, drinks and automotive markets in the Middle East and North Africa.

Agile and cost-effective production The new modular and compact BOBST NOVA SX 550 laminator offers agile production, with faster set-ups and changeovers to help Digital Labels respond to demands for short runs and quick turnaround with less waste. It handles a wide range of substrates including paper, alu-foil, metallized films and thin stretchable materials, with production speeds reaching up to 450 m/min. Tool-less changeovers of transfer rolls are performed within minutes irrespective of whether solid rolls or sleeves types are used.

A complete job changeover is very fast, taking less than 15 minutes.

The flexibility of the laminator enables high-quality production at low cost. Along with an intuitive HMI, it comes with a patented onetouch automated washing system that requires less cleaning solution compared to similar machines and features an adjustable cleaning cycle of five minutes or less.

Automatic reel-centering technology saves on set-up time and waste, and rollers are compatible with other manufacturers’ systems.

The unique three-column design, which offers easy access to all parts of the machine, is also contributing to the high uptime, and the data

collection and connectivity features allow Digital Labels full control of the process and access to BOBST remote services.

“When I first saw the NOVA SX 550 laminator in the BOBST showroom, I knew that it was exactly what we needed. It is very operator friendly and so easy to use, and it is equipped with all the necessary technologies for fast changeover, like fast fully automatic washing system,” said Mr Sabha.

Remote installation With tight restrictions on travel and access caused by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Digital Labels’ own team of engineers had to manage the installation themselves, and they did a great job, with a little remote guidance from Bobst Italia.

Due to the true plug-andplay nature of the NOVA SX 550 laminator, which needs no special foundations and is simply lifted into place, the installation was a complete success. Within just two days of delivery, Digital Labels was up and running, producing quality laminated structures for customers – a true testament to the intuitive design and ease of use of this BOBST machine. Mr Sabha commented, “We didn’t have any issues with the new laminator and our products are produced according to the standards.”

Reflecting on the whole process, he said, “We were actually quite surprised by the simplicity of the

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Responding to green demands Environmental concerns have increased the demand for solventless lamination as customers look to label and packaging producers to introduce more sustainable manufacturing methods for flexible packaging. To meet these requirements, Digital Labels has chosen to invest in the NOVA SX 550 laminator, an innovative new machine introduced by BOBST in early 2020.

“Maximizing sustainability in the process is very important to us,” said Mohammad Sabha, Plant Manager and Executive Engineer.

“We launched our own Let’s Go Green campaign back in 2016 to optimise production in the most environmentally friendly way possible, and we are continually looking for ways to improve our green credentials. The NOVA SX 550 solventless laminator fits perfectly with that ethos.”

As a member of the non-profit organisation SEDEX, Digital Labels has also undertaken and passed the extended SMETA 4-pillar audit, which assesses the Environment and Business Ethics of a company in addition to Labor Standards and Health & Safety. The world’s leading social audit certifies that

that the company is working in an ethical manner and complying with international standards and good practice.

Environmental concerns have increased the demand for solventless lamination

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With rapidly increasing disposable incomes, the spending of the UAE population on different goods is also growing

machine. Although the COVID-19 procedures didn’t allow BOBST technicians to visit Jordan for the installation, our engineering team was able to install it with online support from Italy.” He added, “Our operators are also very satisfied with the machine and learned to run it in a very short time.”

Relying on partnership A long-term partnership with BOBST has seen Digital Labels install five BOBST flexo presses and a laminator over the years, before this latest acquisition.

Always at the forefront of development, the company was the first printer in the Middle East to implement 7-color Extended Color Gamut (ECG) printing through the investment in a BOBST flexo press

with REVO DigiFlexo technology.

Other installations include a further three inline flexo presses, a CI flexo press and a compact multitechnology laminator for flexible packaging from BOBST. “Quite simply, we put our trust in BOBST’s machinery, because we know that we are buying the highest standard, best quality and the latest technology. Added to that, we can also rely on getting the best in after-sales support so that we can minimise downtime and keep our promise to our customers of delivering high-quality solutions on time, every time,” said Mr Sabha.

“We needed to expand our solventless production with a simple machine to handle short runs with short changeover times and the BOBST NOVA SX 550 meets those

criteria perfectly. I believe that this machine has a place in every flexible packaging printing house and I’m 100% confident of its productivity. I highly recommend it.”

“With the new NOVA SX 550 solventless laminator in house, Digital Labels is leading the industry by offering sustainable, costeffective and flexible production to customers looking to improve their green credentials and to meet the end users’ quest for environmentally friendly products,” said Nanni Bertorelli, Product Line Manager Coating & Laminating, Bobst Italia.

“AT BOBST, we are committed to working with our partners to implement solutions that continue to improve their processes and help them grow productivity in a sustainable way.”

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UAE Packaging Market is Slated to Experience Formidable Growth

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Mordor Intelligence recently introduced a report on UAE Packaging market. According to the report the UAE packaging market was valued at USD 2813.5 million in 2020 and is expected to reach USD 6193.16 million at a CAGR of 4.6% during the forecast period of 2021 – 2026. With rapidly increasing disposable incomes, the spending of the UAE population on different goods is also growing.

• According to the World Bank, the share of the urban population in the United Arab Emirates increased from 84.42% in 2011 to 86.80% in 2019. The number of expats in the United Arab Emirates is also growing, which is expected to positively impact the packaging market growth in various sectors.

• The UAE is one of the largest personal care markets in the Middle East due to its large population. It is becoming the local hub for the beauty and skincare industry. Moreover, the rise of beauty trends is heightened by social media exposure that encourages word of mouth and works as a useful marketing tool.

According to Messe Frankfurt, in 2020, the sales value for the UAE’s beauty industry is expected to be

Retailing Market Size, in USD billion, United Arab Emirates, 2014-2021

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43.5

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47.2

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50.6

51.6

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2017

54.7

54.7

2018

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57.7

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worth USD 2.7 billion.

• Thus, the personal care companies are investing in their packaging, vastly the packaging of their products, which always acts as a primary factor to gain attention.

For instance, in September 2019, the luxury e-commerce brand Ounass launched eco-friendly boxes to demonstrate its initiatives towards sustainability.

Such initiatives highlight the inherent rise in demand for the market studied.

• Moreover, multiple factors are influencing the trend of fast-food

culture, which, in turn, is driving the market for food packaging.

For instance, better cold chain infrastructure boosts consumer preference for frozen processed halal meat and poultry, cold drinks, and flavored milk across the country, which is tipped to drive industry growth to 2030.

• The Organic Trade Association estimates for 2020, that the forecasted value of organic packaged food and beverage consumption in the United Arab Emirates was over USD 51.2 million as against USD 27.3 million in 2014.

As the packaging protects the contents from being crushed or squeezed or contaminated, the market being studied is presumed to grow due to increased packaged food and beverage consumption.

• Moreover, the standardization of the ‘Made in UAE’ initiative, which introduces the local manufacturers to the global market, is helping the country to reduce its reliance on imports and to strengthen its export potential.

The positive growth of this kind in the manufacturing sector has encouraged considerable investments in the packaging industry. Most of the investments in the packaging sector are made toward adjusting their packaging practices to the country’s current economic situation and evolving standards.

• However, the region’s unstable economy and decreasing oil prices may hinder the growth of the market. Further, due to COVID-19, Emiratis are cutting back on their spending in all categories, except household essentials. This is expected to increase the use of plastic packaging, especially in UAE food industry. The United Arab Emirates is also dependent on the import of raw materials for corrugated board from countries such as India, where the pandemic caused the closure of paper mills due to lockdown and social distancing norms, leading to a shortage of raw materials.

Key Market Trends Corrugated Boards to Execute a Significant Growth Rate Over the Forecast Period • The reason for the accelerated growth of the corrugated packaging market in the United Arab Emirates is due to an increase in environmental awareness

Food and Beverages Sector to Account for a Significant Demand • According to Dubai Exports, the United Arab Emirates accounts for a large number of food and beverage manufacturing units, totaling around 575 units with a total investment of AED 39.5 billion. Products, such as vegetable

Market Size of Food and Beverage Internet Retailing, in AED million, United Arab Emirates, 2013-2018 360.0 302.0 263.0 205.0 116.0

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oil, canned beans, carbonated and non-carbonated beverages, chicken franks, and reconstituted juices, are generally exported in rigid containers, which are in high demand from the country’s food processing sector • In most cases, these products are targeted for exports to the EU market. Hence, to meet stringent packaging regulations imposed by the EU, the local food processors and contract packaging companies have a high preference for rigid packaging solutions for such exports.

• Additionally, some locally produced foods are of very high quality at competitive prices. Over the forecast period, as the number of food processing companies is expected to increase, locally produced products are likely to compete with imports of consumer-ready foods, creating considerable demand for price in competitive packaging from the local food manufacturers.

• Further, the growing internet retailing and omnichannel vendors in the region are further expected to boost the production of food and beverage in the country. According to the recent statistics from the Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry, internet retailing in the country is growing rapidly. In 2018, the sector witnessed growth by 19%, reaching AED 360 million, representing a CAGR of 65% from 2013 to 2018.

• The increasing demand from packaged food in the country is augmenting the demand for corrugated board packaging in the studied segment. According to Agriculture and Agri-Food

The standardization of the ‘Made in UAE’ initiative, is helping the country to reduce its reliance on imports

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Scope of the Report Packaging refers to the process of designing, evaluating, and producing packages. Packaging can be described as a coordinated system of preparing goods for transport, warehousing, logistics, sale, and end use. In many countries, it is fully integrated into government, business, institutional, industrial, and personal use.

among populations, demand for sustainable packaging solutions, demand for convenient packaging (offset by new restrictions on single-use in some countries), growing e-commerce market, and rise in need for electronic goods and home and personal care products, along with economic development and increasing per capita income. In the December 2018 Paper Arabia trade show, 25% of visitors were interested in the corrugated packaging segment, which was the highest among all the segments.

• Furthermore, the rising penetration of the e-commerce sector in the country is paving the way for corrugated packaging.

According to Visa, e-commerce transactions in the United Arab Emirates accounted for USD 16 billion in 2019. Also, the United Arab Emirates represents the biggest annual spending per online shopper at USD 1,648 in the MENA region.

• The use of mini-flute corrugated boxes in some end-user segment enabled corrugated boxes to expand their presence, such as cereal boxes and carryout food packaging. An additional factor that allows corrugated boxes to gain share from paperboard cartons is the introduction of e-commerce-ready packaging that substitutes lightweight and easy-to-open cartons for boxes that can withstand the rigors of shipping.

• Moreover, the United Arab Emirates is also a net exporter of paper and paperboard, majorly to the countries in South Africa and other GCC countries. The paperboard packaging solutions include cartons, leaflets, tubes, corrugated cases, and rigid boxes.

Paperboards that are used for fiberboard boxes are the primary means of secondary packaging in most of the end-user industries.

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Canada, the retail sales value of fortified and functional packaged food in the United Arab Emirates is expected to account for USD 443.5 million in 2020, from USD 199.4 million in 2011.

• Moreover, the e-commerce sector also enables cross-border retailing of products that are expected to improve the demand for secondary packaging from the food and beverage industry over the forecast period.

The UAE packaging market has a wide portfolio of suppliers from the local and international market

Competitive Landscape The UAE packaging market has a wide portfolio of suppliers from the local and international market. This factor leads to high competition among the vendors. In many cases, due to the absence of multiple distribution channels, the vendors directly interact with the end-users to sell their products. This scenario leads to long-term deals with endusers. Hence, the vendors often choose to retain their clients or make new clients by competitive pricing strategies. Additionally, as most of the packaging material is sourced from imports, there is a high competition among the suppliers to capture a limited number of players in the market. This factor is intensifying the competitive rivalry among the local and foreign manufacturers.

Some of the key players in the market include Gulfeast Paper & Plastic Industries LLC, Arabian

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CAGR

2020

4.6%

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Packaging Co. LLC, Amber Packaging Industries LLC, among others. Some of the key recent developments in the market include: • Jul 2020 – Huhtamaki launched a range of high-quality affordable and reusable face masks today.

The Huhta Masks are suitable for everyday use and help reduce the spread of droplets into the environment. The comfortable masks are designed to be breathable and washable, and are made of high-quality fabric with anti-microbial and fluid repellent properties.

• Aug 2020 -INDEVCO Paper Containers Launched a New Social Distancing Product Line of corrugated separators to support implementation of social distance measures and maintain safety during COVID19. Responding to

the social distancing guidelines imposed for COVID19, INDEVCO Paper Containers launched 100% recyclable, easily locked, and fastforming corrugated separators used to maintain the appropriate distance, prevent close contact, and secure people’s health and safety in closed areas.

This product line provides a lightweight, recyclable, safe and hygienic solution for COVID19 for the workplace, stores, and schools, with studies showing that the virus degrades rapidly on porous surfaces such as cardboard compared to other materials.

For more information and to download the report go to: https:// w w w.mordorintelligence.com/ industry-reports/uae-packagingmarket.

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Saudi Paper Turns to Net Profit in 2020

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Saudi Paper Manufacturing Co. turned to a net profit after Zakat and tax of SAR 9.2 million for the first nine months of 2020, against a net loss of SAR 16.2 million a year earlier.

The nine-month period results were driven by higher sales and a decline in productions costs. However, the company’s net profit was hit by SAR 11.3 million worth of provisions, compared to a reversal of SAR 40.3 million provision a year earlier.

In Q3 2020, the company turned to a net profit after Zakat and tax of SAR 4.1 million, against a net loss of SAR 24.2 million a year earlier, thanks to a decline in the costs of paper pulp and other production costs along with better operating efficiency. Moreover, selling, general and administrative expenses as well as finance costs decreased.

When compared to the previous quarter, net profit increased by 4.85, thanks to a decline in selling, general and administrative expenses as well as Zakat charges.

Modular 3D-Printed Majlis House is a Marvel The 3D-printed Majlis House made from smooth 3D-printed concrete walls in Abu Dhabi is an architectural triumph. The Majlis House is conceptualized and designed by MEAN (Middle East Architecture Network).

Conceived as modular house, the Emirati Majlis has been proposed as a place of gathering and socializing in response to today’s question on “how can we reimagine a house in light of today’s lifestyle and technology? ” The Majlis House is proposed as “a predominant spatial typology” in Gulf residences. Aimed at building typically as an annex to the house, it is a space of social gathering and interaction typically used to receive guests and is designed to be detached from the private quarters of the family in Emirati homes.

The house is made of the using of concrete 3D printing technologies.

Proposing new modular strategies, the house can be envisioned in-line with the challenges and potentials of these technologies to allow for faster, more spatially fluid inhabitations at an ecological and affordable rate.

MEAN* reimagines the spatial qualities of this typology with 3 options for the space depending on the requirements and lifestyle of its inhabitants: Capsule Pod, Fluid Space and Folded Walls.

Capsule Pod As MEAN* explains, for this option, the team designed a method of construction that relies on hoistin-place precast methods for constructing concrete parts.

“The parts are 3D Printed concrete flat on the ground on-site and lifted to place to be assembled to make up

the cylindrical volume of the space,” said the architects.

“The concrete ‘rings’ have spaces in between to allow natural light to come in from 3 sides. The space inside is composed of these structural members, which allow for a vast and column-free interior.”

Fluid Space The second key design principle is to provide a fluid space. For this option, the architects use the advantages of concrete 3D printing methods bring forth.

The spatial enclosure is organic and unique, with practical interior gestures such as the recessed seating area and the roof skylight,” the team added.

“The space is 3D printed in 2 parts: 1 part for the enclosing walls which serve as a shell structure containing all the programmatic functions needed by the majlis annex, and the other part to construct the roof, which is a radical use of 3D Printing technology.”

Folded Walls The third principle is to explore the idea of walls folding into each other to compose the space. Each wall is made of 3D printed in concrete onsite in a trapezoidal shape to allow more floor area while achieving a dynamic exterior form.

“The main wall is printed in a typical smooth finish, while the second wall is printed with undulations to create a textured design feature that celebrates the construction technology,” MEAN* continued.

“The walls meet at gaps that are glazed to allow natural light into the space and to provide space the doors.”

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Each annex is fitted with a foyer, a washroom, a small kitchenette, and living areas. With each option, the possibility of having the annex attached or detached from the house has also been examined.

Careful consideration had been given to the architectural language of each option to fit into the social lifestyle of contemporary Emiratis as well as the local architecture of the UAE. According to the architects, “the three options of the 3D Printed Majlis propose the use of 3D printing for the construction of a novel annex to the contemporary home.”

As a design exercise, the team at MEAN* explored pushing the boundaries of 3D printing in concrete, while envisioning new spatial narratives for the typology of the Majlis.

MEAN (Middle East Architecture Network), founded by architect, entrepreneur and researcher Riyad Joucka, is an innovative architecture practice that works at the nexus of design and emergent technologies.

MEAN utilizes cutting edge computational design processes and digital fabrication tools to leverage the quality of architectural solutions. Computer Programming, Robotics, 3D Printing, AR, VR, and CNC manufacturing are some of the technologies we use to leverage our work.

MEAN previously designed a retreat with sculptural limestone façade in Jebel Jais, the highest peak of the United Arab Emirates.

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Heidelberg Increases Capacity in China

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Heidelberg is now exporting machinery from its site in Shanghai to more than 40 countries

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Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, demand for printing systems, particularly in the Asian core markets, is nearing pre-crisis levels again. The same applies to the production volumes of Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG (Heidelberg) at its site in Shanghai.

Accordingly, the company has also progressively increased exports of its printing presses manufactured in China. Since being established in 2005, launching the assembly of postpress systems, and subsequently taking up the production of standard smallformat printing presses for the Chinese market, the site now employs some 450 staff and manufactures printing presses for commercial and packaging printing across all standard format classes. Production operations are centered on the 70 × 100 format class, specifically the Speedmaster CD 102 and Speedmaster CS 92 models.

Customers in more than 40 countries trust Heidelberg quality from China The company is now exporting machinery from its site in Shanghai to more than 40 countries. The main customers besides China are other Asian markets such as Japan, Indonesia, Malaysia, India, and the Philippines. However, the number of Chinese-manufactured machines being exported to Europe – predominantly standard printing presses – is also increasing. For example, Chinesemade presses have been installed in Germany, Italy, Switzerland, and France. In south and central America, countries such as Mexico and Brazil have been placing orders. As a result, the export rate from China is currently at 19 percent and rising.

“Our production at the Chinese site in Shanghai is a success story, not just in terms of the Chinese market, but also and increasingly with regard to the rest of the world,” states Heidelberg CEO Rainer Hundsdörfer. “Already, around one third of all the Heidelberg printing units being manufactured are coming from this plant. Following the rapid

economic recovery of the Asian markets from the coronavirus pandemic, our local production operations have proven to be a strategic advantage in overcoming the crisis. As a consequence, we are increasingly able to realize growth opportunities in these regions.”

Satisfied users are investing again Established in 1959, Japanese company Ebara Printing Co., Ltd. employs 35 staff and is a longstanding customer of Heidelberg. This multifunctional media service provider, which is also a certified supplier to a global company in the entertainment industry, is meticulous in preparing its investment decisions and lays down strict criteria. Based on detailed market analyses, Ebara has transformed its product portfolio, moving away from classic business and office stationery to become more of a solutions provider for packaging printing. The key to its success has been its ability to meet wide-ranging product requirements with substrates in thicknesses from 0.03mm to 1.0 mm and print on materials from cardboard to PP and PET plastics.

To achieve these capabilities, Ebara invested in a Speedmaster CD 102 with UV technology in 2004, which it procured from Germany. In May 2020, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the print shop installed its second Speedmaster CD 102-5+L, which this time had been manufactured in China. The new acquisition replaced two older Speedmaster

presses. While the first press is now primarily dedicated to cardboard production, the new CD 102-5+L is exhibiting its full versatility. As well as printing plastics, it is also being used to print card during peak periods, when it helps ease the strain on the first press.

“Before we decided to invest, we very carefully scrutinized every aspect of the new Speedmaster CD 102. In the end, we were very impressed by the technological advances in evidence on the press.

We succeeded in significantly boosting our productivity and we are also benefitting from considerable flexibility with regard to substrates,” explains Akinori Furukawa, Managing Director of Ebara: “We are confident that, with the new Speedmaster CD 102 and with Heidelberg as a partner, we will continue to enhance our competitiveness.”

Bunkado the first Japanese print shop to install a Speedmaster CD manufactured in China In 2018, Bunkado Printing Co., Ltd., which is based in the Japanese city of Odawara, became the first Japanese print shop to install a Chinesemanufactured Speedmaster CD 102 with UV technology from Heidelberg. This meant the company was now running a total of three Speedmaster presses with UV technology in the 70 × 100 format class. The latest investment replaced a 17-year-old Speedmaster CD 102, enabling the company to double its original productivity. This and the flexibility of the press are essential conditions

for Bunkado’s expansion into the growing packaging market. As a result, highly flexible and qualityfocused sheetfed offset printing is becoming the company’s second mainstay alongside web offset printing.

Kazuto Nakanishi, Managing Director of Bunkado Printing: “As the peak season was drawing closer,

we needed a new printing press with UV technology fast. Heidelberg therefore offered us a Speedmaster CD 102 from its Chinese production site, which was available at short notice. Before we concluded the purchase agreement, we saw the Heidelberg factory in Shanghai for ourselves and were deeply impressed by the state-of-the-art

and professional manufacturing operations there. That is what won us over and we have certainly not regretted our decision. The print quality, productivity, and reliability of the press meet the same exceptional standards that we have come to expect from Heidelberg presses that have been made in Germany.”

Manroland Sheetfed Snaps up Heidelberg’s “Mr Large Format” Manroland Sheetfed GmbH has appointed Mr Bernhard Schaaf to its senior management team as head of the large format press division, based at the group’s headquarters in Germany.

Mr Schaaf was formerly head of large format at Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG (HD), where he was employed for the past 14 years. HD announced last year that they are discontinuing large format press production.

Rafael Penuela, CEO Manroland Sheetfed GmbH: “We are delighted to welcome Bernhard Schaaf to our leadership team. With the launch of the ROLAND 900 Evolution last summer coinciding with an increase in global demand for large format machines in packaging applications and Mr Schaaf’s intimate knowledge of the sector, the timing is perfect to strengthen

presses in 2020, demonstrates the company’s ambition and gives me the chance to explore further development opportunities in this highly important sector”.

our team and build upon the latest incarnation of Manroland’s iconic large format presses”.

Bernhard Schaaf: “Over recent years Manroland Sheetfed has gone from strength to strength with financial stability, technological innovation, drive and commitment. The recent launch of the ROLAND 900 Evolution

Comment Manroland Sheetfed couldn’t have timed the launch of its nextgeneration large size format press series better.

The company’s reputation in large format is well known to aficionados of the brand and HD exiting the sector has left a gaping hole in a growing market segment. It was a smart move on CEO Rafael Penuela’s part to snap up HD’s “Mr Large Format”.

Following on from launching the highly acclaimed ROLAND 700 Evolution in 2016, the ROLAND 900 Evolution Series announced last year is equally packed full of technological wizardry. And of course, legendary ROLAND quality.

Bernhard Schaaf was formerly head of large format at Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG

Agfa Increases Prices for its Offset Plates

increase applied to our customers will be partly offset, as printers will benefit from higher aluminum

prices when they recycle their used plates. Agfa’s customers highly value our continuous investment in advanced prepress technology and related services – such as the ECO³ framework which stands for Economy, Ecology and Extra Convenience – which leads to substantial economic benefits in their print shop.

The Agfa sales teams will be in contact with their customers to discuss the detail and support the implementation, taking into account individual existing agreements.

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Agfa announced today that it will globally increase the prices of its offset plates.

Soaring input costs, particularly relevant to aluminum, energy and packaging materials, in combination with sharply rising freight rates due to global logistic constraints make price increases unavoidable. Prices of offset plates will therefore increase between 5 and 10%, taking effect from April 1st 2021 onwards.

Despite internal cost reductions, the magnitude of rising prices is no longer sustainable. The price

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A ROUND UP ON BESTSELLING ARABIC BOOKS

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Books written by Arab authors are considered a window to the heart and mind of the Arabs

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Arabic language enjoys a rich heritage and each year a number of books by Arab scholars and authors come to life and delight Arab speaking populace across the globe. Arab culture is grabbing lot of attention these

days and books written by Arab authors are considered a window to the heart and mind of the Arabs.

Here is a list of some of the best-selling books in the Arab world as well as some excerpts from the books:

The Granada (A Novel) Radwa Ashour skillfully weaves a history of Granada rule and an Arabic world into a novel that evokes cultural loss and the disappearance of a vanquished population. The novel follows the family of Abu Jaafar, the bookbinder his wife, widowed daughter-in-law, her two children, and his two apprentices as they witness Christopher Columbus and his entourage in a triumphant parade featuring exotic plants and animals and human captives from the New World. Embedded in the narrative is the preparation for the marriage of Saad, one of the apprentices, and Saleema, Abu Jaafar’s granddaughter a scenario that is elegantly revealed in a number of parallel scenes.

Forty Written by Ahmed Al-Shugairi, Forty summarizes the journey of forty years, a journey of struggle and a never ending quest to move forward in search of inner peace. In his book, Al Shugairi focuses on the idea of loneliness and how to get rid of bad habits of assessing the past, planning for the future, and giving up false fame.

Ghassan Kanafani’s Letters to Ghada Saman The letters of the writer Badi ‘Ghassan Kanafani to Ghada Saman are “humane” speeches in which deep friendship is mixed with the language and pain of time. It shows us the poetic side of this writer that we knew was stubborn. The revolutionary fighter is a slap in the face to the traditional fighter’s vision

Children of Gebelawi Children of Gebelawi is a novel by the Egyptian writer and Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz. It is also known by its Egyptian dialectal transliteration, Awlad Haretna, and by the alternative translated transliteral Arabic title of Children of Our Alley.

The story recreates the interlinked history of the three monotheistic Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam), allegorised against the setting of an imaginary 19th century Cairene alley.

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Theory of Pistachios For the writer Fahd Al-Ahmadi, who provides us with a set of articles that focus on self-development, natural language processing, and novel topics revolving around success and the need for continuity to achieve this and the consequences of tracking the small habits and your ability to achieve great things.

Children of Gebelawi is a novel by the Egyptian writer and Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz.

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A grim futuristic account of Egyptian society in the year 2023, Utopia takes readers on a chilling journey

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Azazeel The events of the novel take place in the fifth century AD when the writer Youssef Zaiden takes us across the place between Egypt, Alexandria and northern Syria after Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire and caused conflicts among the pagans. The neo-believers are in an epic inner battle.

Bamboo stalk A novel by the young Kuwaiti writer Saud Al-Senussi that takes an unflinching look at the lives of foreign workers in Arab countries and confronts the universal problems of identity, race and religion.

The book won the Arab Booker Prize and the Arab Book Award.

Josephine Mendoza escapes poverty by coming to Kuwait from the Philippines to work as a maid, where she meets Rashid, an idealistic only son with literary aspirations. Josephine, with all the wideeyed naivety of youth, believes she has found true love. But when she becomes pregnant, and with the rumble of war growing ever louder, Rashid bows to family and social pressure, and sends her back home with her baby son, José.

Brought up struggling with his dual identity, José clings to the hope of returning to his father’s country when he is eighteen. He is ill-prepared to plunge headfirst into a world where the fear of tyrants and dictators is nothing compared to the fear of ‘what will people say.’ And with a Filipino face, a Kuwaiti passport, an Arab surname and a Christian first name, will his father’s country welcome him?

Utopia In this unique novel, writer Dr. Ahmed Khaled Tawfik warns the reader and shocks the reader with hard-to-believe scenes inspired by novels that resemble the horror of the signs of the Day of Resurrection, and the writer slipped from the near future to convey his horror with shocking neutrality.

A grim futuristic account of Egyptian society in the year 2023, Utopia takes readers on a chilling journey beyond the gated communities of the North Coast, where the wealthy are insulated from the bleakness of life outside the walls. When a young man and a girl break out from this bubble of affluence in order to see for themselves the lives of their impoverished fellow Egyptians they are confronted by a world that they had not imagined possible. Breathtaking and suspenseful, Utopia’s twists and turns will keep listeners guessing until the very last moment, and may leave some wondering whether this is a vision of the future that is not too far away.

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The Mockery of the human mind The author of the book, Ali Al-Wardi, was influenced by the philosophical ideas that criticized the assumption that the nature of the human mind is fixed. These ideas come from his reading of Ibn Khaldun, Sigmund Freud and Karl Mannheim. He reinterpreted their ideas of the mind and applied it to Iraqi society and the Iraqi mind. He believes that human nature is egocentric and determined in most actions, motivated by the subconscious. The role of the mind is to justify human behaviour. The mind is one-sided and biased and is untrustworthy.

It is only an organ that aids humans in their quest for survival. Also the mind has a limited capacity and is surrounded by a dense rim of values, beliefs and interests. Al-Wardi has launched a relentless campaign against the Aristotelian logic and against reason and rationality. Despite his rational analysis, he could not free himself from the mindset he identified as a farce and did not distinguish between the productive and the instrumental mind.

Born in Kadhimiya, Baghdad in 1913, to a religious and very traditional family. He grew up defying his family’s strict non-modern-educational policy, where his father wanted him to learn a craft instead of reading books. Nevertheless, Al-Wardi grew up with a disliking for work and crafts and a strong liking for books.

There’s never been a better time for PSPs to remind brands that print has the power to break people away from their screens

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“Brands Favour Print’s Value”

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There’s never been a better time for PSPs to remind brands that print has the power to break people away from their screens

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Exclusive interview with Mathew Faulkner, EMEA Senior Marketing Manager for Canon Europe’s Professional Print business Recently Canon launched its Insight Report, the latest EMEA research exploring the attitudes, needs and expectations of communication and print buyers, to help print providers identify opportunities and challenges in the market today.

The report reveals a number of interesting and insightful facts. For example, based on the findings of the report fewer than 20% of printers and in-house print rooms are fulfilling the needs of print buyers or more than a third (33%) of today’s marketing budget is devoted to print. But perhaps the most interesting finding of this report is that many buyers believe

that print will continue to remain important. In order to dig deeper into data provided by this study we talked to Mathew Faulkner, EMEA Senior Marketing Manager for Canon Europe’s Professional Print business.

Do you think Covid made print more relevant or less? Why? Marketers were already under pressure to reach multiple audiences, with complex messages, via a growing range of channels, using limited budgets. COVID has intensified these pressures, removing some tried-and-tested channels and forcing brands to be agile in responding to a changing landscape and consumer behaviour.

Our research shows that brands are spending more of their budget

on digital, but they are worried about whether it can continue to give them the results they need.

At a time when most face-to-face communication is on hold and has been replaced by digital touchpoints, marketers are seeing real proof of digital fatigue in their target audiences. Judging by an increase in unsubscribes, opt-outs and ad blocking, many consumers are disengaging from digital marketing.

Research Canon conducted in association with ME Printer in 2020 revealed that brands favour print’s value, despite the trend towards digitisation. The EMEA-wide Insight Report reinforces this confidence in print as a creative, authoritative and trusted medium.

So, there’s never been a better time for ts to remind brands that print has the power to break people away from their screens and cut through the digital fog, which makes it particularly effective.

In the wake of COVID, PSPs have a clear opportunity to highlight print’s USPs (unique selling points) and emphasise that it can be cost-effective, fast to market, agile, responsive and ultra-targeted.

In the Insight Report you mentioned brands who currently spend at least a quarter of their communications budget on print expect it to become more important, what about Canon?

Are you planning to increase your print marketing budget?

Actually, the Insight Report reveals that brands are spending as much as a third (33%) of their marketing budget on print.

Canon faces the same challenges as any other global organisation with a diverse range of products and services, targeted at multiple audiences. To reach them, we must use a complex mix of analogue and digital channels, with carefully chosen tactics along the customer journey. And, like any large organisation, we have to tailor our channel choices to each audience and reflect the consumer behaviours and nuances of each geographical region.

We strongly believe in print as a vital part of the marketing mix and promote its unique attributes, internally and to the market at large. Like all brands, Canon looks to use print’s creative impact, reach and authority in multiple ways to support our multi-channel marketing campaigns. For example, through printed direct marketing brochures and other printed sales and marketing collateral, high quality photobooks, customer publications, educational materials, print media and OOH (out of home) advertising and so on.

According to your report brands are calling for more input from PSP’s. They expect PSP’s to offer them consultation and different options, but PSP’s also expect their equipment suppliers such as Canon offer them solutions beyond the box. They want to know how can they use and manage hybrid workflows, how to integrate digital printing with traditional offset printing, what is Canon approach to help PSP’s work more efficiently?

We’ve started by using the findings from the Insight Report to draw up a 10-point checklist of behaviours for success, which we’re calling the ‘Make it Mantra’. It’s designed to remind print professionals that lasting success comes when they exceed their buyers’ expectations.

For example, we’re encouraging PSPs to work harder to interrogate briefs and go the extra mile to demonstrate their knowledge.

In doing so, they will be able to build more opportunities for print by showing how it can be used at different stages along the customer journey to achieve a better return on investment from marketing campaigns.

It’s supported by a growing bank of mentor-led educational content that gives print businesses more guidance on how to implement

these behaviours in their everyday work.

In the Middle East, Canon has a direct sales relationship with its customers in UAE, KSA and Qatar, using a dedicated team who specialise in digital print technology solutions. Canon also has a network of channel partners to support the additional Middle Eastern countries to provide a dynamic and evolving programme of content and knowledge-sharing that has been shaped to the region’s customers’ needs. This dedicated approach helps our resellers to equip their PSPs with the necessary expertise to help them make better decisions that will enable them to grow and protect their bottom line.

Knowing how to get the most out of their print and finishing investments, as well as optimising their workflows is only one side of the print professional’s pathway to success. Canon’s direct operations and authorised partners are also pivotal in ensuring that our customers (both PSPs and inhouse print professionals) become more consultative and harness the opportunity to build a closer working relationship with brand marketers, i.e., the people who buy print.

There is no doubt print advertising is more reliable than digital marketing, although brands are well aware of this fact (including Canon, I suppose) They are slashing their marketing budget even before pandemic hit the globe and they

The real challenge for print is the widely held view among marketers that print isn’t trackable or measurable

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are reluctant to advertise in print media, so many publications are forced to close down and the number of PSP’s also dwindling and subsequently equipment manufacturers face a shrinking market. It is a vicious cycle. In an apocalyptic scenario soon there will be no more magazine to advertise. Do you think this is inevitable?

Brands have certainly told us that their marketing campaigns perform better when they use a mix of digital and analogue channels, including print. In fact, 40% of the respondents said that they would invest more in print if budget were no object, because of the positive impact it has on their campaign outcomes.

However, the real challenge for print is the widely held view among marketers that print isn’t trackable or measurable, so they can’t calculate its contribution within a campaign. One in three respondents told us that they have no way of measuring the success of print campaigns. Digital marketing, on the other hand, is superficially easy to measure. Marketers can get instant feedback in the form of click throughs and open rates, Google Analytics, web and social media traffic data.

Ultimately, brands will gravitate towards the media channels that reach their target audiences and deliver the greatest return on investment. In a specialist sector such as professional print, it’s logical that specialist publications with genuine influence with decision-makers will be recognised as an effective channel.

Brands value print because it is creative, trusted, authoritative and enables them to reach audiences that can be difficult to engage digitally. Trusted trade publications have an opportunity to emphasise these attributes, if

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In addition, we produce a range of mentor-led content, including guidance on Extended Reality (XR), giving PSPs knowledge that will help them to add value in conversation with their print buyers.

Having identified the vital importance of measurability to brands in the latest Insight Report, we’re working hard through 2021 to build PSPs’ confidence to talk about measurement, and

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One key success factor for many PSPs in the last year has been the ability to interact with customers digitally

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media owners can demonstrate that they understand the audience and deliver creative propositions for brands that address the fundamental importance of measurability.

Many brands are now looking for innovative ideas such as AR, QR codes etc. which is something that PSP’s can offer them. Does Canon have a plan or solution to offer to PSP’s in order to help them bring these innovative ideas to the market?

We’re always looking for ways to support PSPs and enable them to maximise growth opportunities in the market. Augmented Reality (AR) is just one technology that is poised to transform marketing by delivering immersive experiences with the potential to engage audiences from all backgrounds and generations. Brands have seen the creative scope of AR and how it can give customers an enriched experience of a product or service.

Print is an essential part of the multi-channel customer journey and can function as a familiar ‘launch pad’ into the virtual space.

By gaining a solid understanding of what AR can do, PSPs have an important role to play in helping brands find the best way to lead the consumer into the online

environment, which also has the advantage of making it possible to measure print’s role in the campaign.

At Canon, we have several initiatives designed to help current and prospective Canon customers stay abreast of trends and developments in online and offline communications. For example, the Future Promotion Forum covers the whole spectrum of omni-channel marketing communication topics and how different media can be used to increase sales success and marketing ROI.

E commerce and web to print are gaining momentum and Corona crisis is also giving them a boost, what is Canon’s approach to these popular trends? What sort of solutions you are offering to your customers to take advantage of these trends?

One key success factor for many PSPs in the last year has been the ability to interact with customers digitally and to onboard jobs online, with minimal manual intervention. This has led to increased recognition of the need to adopt web-to-print capabilities.

We’ve seen an uplift in demand from PSPs for ways to improve production line automation, including pre-flighting and printing.

Using our PRISMA production solutions, PSPs have been able to cut manual intervention and turnaround times, while the EFI Digital StoreFront solution has been invaluable for PSPs looking to establish a customer-facing

self-service web-to-print interface, allowing print buyers to create and submit their own jobs for production.

By innovating and sharpening their business processes, including web-to-print, PSPs can put the time they save to good use. These solutions enable them to be more creative, build a more consultative relationship with their customers, and update their product and service portfolio accordingly. All of these prepare the ground for increased customer satisfaction and repeat business.

to support sophisticated multichannel campaign management.

Using a combination of Canon’s PRISMAprepare and a third-party solution called PrintShop Mail, we are able to deliver personalised print solutions for the Arabic language.

We also offer a comprehensive range of educational content to help customers understand the potential of personalisation and think about how they could build this into their value proposition.

Sustainability is not a buzzword anymore and now that pandemic forced many of us to work from home the sustainability begins at home, especially when we are using printers or any multifunction devices, what is Canon’s approach to sustainability during these strange times? New designs, new consumables, less waste?

As you would expect from a technology innovator like Canon, sustainability is a high priority within our continuous product development programme. We’ve made great strides in making our print production technology more environmentally responsible, for example with reduced energy usage, and with innovations that help customers to reduce waste and maximise productivity and efficiency.

But, while we can make strides to improve individual technologies,

true sustainability gains for PSPs come from end-to-end workflow optimisation, which makes the business operationally efficient and reduces waste in every area. So, what’s good for the PSP’s bottom line is also good for the environment.

I think it’s also important that we as an industry work to dispel the consumer myth that print is environmentally harmful. We need the marketing community to understand that well-targeted print is one of the most sustainable communications media available.

We have an opportunity to remind brands that digital print on demand allows them to order smaller print runs, just in time, and tailor production to need. So, they can be smart and more targeted in how they use print.

Ultimately, we must look beyond the print engine and support PSPs to implement future-proof business models that help their customers to produce print that is aligned to their needs, without over-ordering or holding inventory. We have many incredible print-on-demand success stories in segments like book production, which are making entire value chains more sustainable. The potential to deliver significant advances that impact the printer, the buyer and the end customer is really exciting.

To download the report go to; https:// en.canon-me.com/business/insights/ articles/insight-report-2020/

By innovating and sharpening their business processes, PSPs can put the time they save to good use

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Direct mail campaigns proved to be quite successful, it is even more successful if it is targeted and personalized. On the paper personalisation which is perhaps the strongest attribute of digital printing is yet to take the world by storm, where is the problem in your opinion?

If a PSP has digital print-ondemand capability, then they also have the capacity to personalise print. And there are certainly clear opportunities for brands to make their printed applications even more effective by adding an element of personalisation.

But, while most brands collect customer data in some form, there’s a tendency for marketers to equate data with online marketing, and to ignore its potential to make print marketing more targeted or individual.

To close this knowledge gap and access this opportunity, PSPs need to be having more exploratory, consultative conversations with buyers, identifying the areas where personalisation or individualisation could add real value by increasing the relevance and emotional impact of communications.

What are Canon solutions to help PSP’s offer personalised print products to their customers? I am not talking only about hardware, I am talking about software, workflow etc…

The Canon software portfolio for production print includes various software tools that enable PSPs to create personalised assets, from straightforward variable data applications, right through to tools

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Case Study

One piece of technology that has become a household necessity during pandemic is the printer

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EPSON ECOTANK PRINTERS

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Sustainability starts at home We live in strange times.

Coronavirus has altered our way of life and imposed a new way of living; we are spending a lot more time in our homes. Home is not just home anymore, it is much

more, a blend of shelter, office, classroom and playground.

One piece of technology that has become a household necessity as a result of this shift in lifestyle is the printer. Employees who were printing regularly in

the office are now working from home and need to have access to a home printer. Families with kids who study remotely will need to print out materials. Furthermore, printing at home is not limited to documents. You can also print

doesn’t compromise on printing quality.

Put simply, an EcoTank is a family friendly solution offering a convenient and cost-effective alternative to the traditional laser or cartridge printer. It’s compact – on average, it takes up 22% less space at home or in the office than other printers. It provides easy access for refilling and a clear view of the ink levels.

It features an enhanced ink filling system engineered to minimize the risk of spills and mess. The EcoTank comes with 1 set of ink bottles, equivalent to 79 ink cartridges – enough to print up to 14,000 pages. And printing costs are fewer than 2 fils/colour page, equivalent to AED 4,600 in cost savings over three years.[1] About Epson Middle East Epson Middle East oversees Epson’s operations in the Middle East markets, in close coordination with Epson Europe.

Headquartered in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Epson Middle East works closely with a network of resellers and distributors across Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Oman, Qatar, Syria and

Yemen, ensuring the availability of its wide, technologicallyadvanced product range to businesses and consumers in the region. www.epson-middleeast. com [1]Based on Epson calculations, average total saving and average number of inkjet cartridges required to print the same number of pages as the average yield of ink bottles included in-box within the EcoTank A4 4-colour range. Comparison between average yield (A4 prints of ISO/IEC 24711) of EcoTank “664”, “101” and “103” bottle series and the genuine consumables used within the 10 best-selling consumer A4 inkjet cartridge printers in the Middle East and Africa (IDC, Quarterly Hardcopy Peripherals Tracker, 2019 shipments, published Q1 2020). Total savings calculated with reference to the average purchase price of a printer amongst these top 10 models plus printing costs, calculated by dividing the relevant cartridge sales revenue and total yield by unit sales in the Middle East and Africa (IDC, Hardcopy Peripherals Consumables Tracker, 2019 shipments, published H2 2019). USD converted to local currency using FX spot rate from XE.COM as at 08/07/2020.

EcoTank is a family friendly solution offering a convenient alternative to the traditional printer

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calendars, images, paper pads, stationary, stickers and a whole lot more to add color to your life and keep your children occupied.

However, this increase in printing could mean a potential increase in cost, trips out to buy new cartridges and an impact on our individual sustainability efforts, in particular increased energy usage.

We have seen around the world how during lockdowns environments recovered and this highlighted to everyone our impact as human beings on the natural world. So, let’s agree to cope with this change in our lifestyles by also considering the environment in our day to day lives and embracing environmentally friendly practices.

It doesn’t have to be a grand gesture, our own contribution to sustainability can be as simple as careful selection when choosing our home printer and opting for a technology that reduces environmental impact.

Powered by Epson’s Heat-Free technology, an EcoTank printer consumes significantly less energy than equivalent laser printers. In fact, if every home laser printer in the UAE and Saudi Arabia was switched to an Epson EcoTank printer, there would be a saving of $921,840 – that’s enough to power 166 homes of families of 4 for a whole year.

And because Epson EcoTank printers come with ink bottles containing the equivalent ink of 79 ink cartridges it means fewer consumables – reducing the requirement of production, shipping and storing, and the resulting CO2 impact of logistics, as well as less plastic material to be managed at end of life.

Moreover, an EcoTank requires no warmup time so it can print immediately, thus improving workflow and productivity. In addition, the EcoTank offers a range of features; some models include Wi-Fi connectivity allowing users to print from almost anywhere. In many aspects it’s a revolutionary solution that

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‫افتتاح مجمع اإلصدارات المؤمنة والذكية‪..‬‬ ‫صرح جديد لدعم التحول الرقمى‬ ‫افتتــح الرئيــس عبــد الفتــاح السيســى‪،‬‬ ‫باألمــس‪ ،‬مجمــع اإلصــدارات المؤمنــة‬ ‫والذكيــة‪ ،‬والــذى يعــد أحــد أدوات الدولــة‬ ‫ىف دعــم التحــول الرقمــى بشــكل مميكــن‬ ‫ومؤمــن‪ ،‬ليؤدى إلحســاس المواطــن بتغيير‬ ‫يف شكل الخدمات بشكل عام وميسر‪.‬‬ ‫يعمــل المشــروع علــى تنفيــذ «الحوكمــة»‪،‬‬ ‫والعمــل بشــكل إلكتــروىن ليوفــر لــكل‬ ‫قطاعــات الدولــة إحصــاءات‪ ،‬وتطبيقــات‪،‬‬ ‫وتقاريــر مناســبة لمتخــذى القــرار دون أي‬ ‫هامش خطأ‪.‬‬ ‫ويضــم المشــروع أكبــر مصنــع ىف العالــم‬ ‫لـ«الــورق المؤمــن»‪ ،‬ومصانــع إلصــدار‬ ‫بطاقات الهوية وجوازات الســفر والبنكنوت‬ ‫بداية من تصنيع المواد الخام لها‪ ،‬فضال ً عن‬ ‫تصنيــع البطاقات الذكية‪ ،‬وكروت الخدمات‬ ‫الموحدة‪ ،‬فضال ً عن مبنى تصنيع المنتجات‬ ‫البالســتيكية والهولوجــرام والطباعــة‬ ‫المؤمنة‪ ،‬ومبنى معالجة البيانات‪ ،‬وخزانات‬ ‫ومخازن‪ ،‬ومبنى مصنع السليلوز‪.‬‬

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‫أرباح «الشروق للطباعة» المجمعة تقفز‬ ‫‪ 169.5%‬خالل ‪2020‬‬

‫أفصحــت شــركة الشــروق الحديثــة‬ ‫للطباعــة والتغليــف ىف مصــر ىف بدايــة هذا‬ ‫األســبوع‪ ،‬عــن نتائــج أعمالهــا المجمعــة‬ ‫والمســتقلة خــال عــام ‪ ،2020‬وأظهــرت‬ ‫نتائــج األعمــال المجمعــة للشــركة‪،‬‬ ‫نمــوا كبيــرا يف صــايف الربــح ليقفــز نحــو‬ ‫‪ ،169.5%‬مقارنــة باربــاح العــام الســابق‬ ‫له ‪.2019‬‬ ‫وطبقا إلفصاح الشــركة‪ ،‬فإن صايف األرباح‬ ‫المجمعــة لعــام ‪ ،2020‬بلغــت ‪162.72‬‬ ‫مليــون جنيــه‪ ،‬مقابــل ‪ 60.36‬مليــون جنيه‬ ‫خالل عام ‪.2019‬‬ ‫وأظهــرت نتائــج األعمال المســتقلة لنفس‬ ‫الفتــرة تحقيــق ‪ 124.10‬مليــون جنيــه‬ ‫صــايف أربــاح‪ ،‬مقابــل ‪ 80.43‬مليــون جنيــه‬ ‫خــال الفتــرة المقارنة‪.‬‬ ‫وبلغــت مبيعــات الشــركة يف القوائــم‬ ‫الماليــة المســتقلة ‪ 774‬مليــون جنيــه‪،‬‬ ‫مقابــل ‪ 756‬مليــون جنيــه خالل ‪.2019‬‬

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‫شــركة الشــروق الحديثــة‬ ‫والتغليــف (قبــل االندماج)‬ ‫تأسســت شــركة الشــروق الحديثــة‬ ‫للطباعــة والتغليــف – شــركة مســاهمة‬ ‫مصريــة – وذلــك بموجــب قــرار الســيد‬ ‫رئيــس الهيئــة العامــة لالســتثمار‬ ‫والمناطــق الحــرة رقــم ‪ 769‬لســنة ‪.1999‬‬ ‫وبدأت الشــركة يف مزاولة نشــاطها اعتبارا‬ ‫مــن ‪ 25‬أكتوبــر ‪ 2000‬وذلــك بغــرض‬ ‫إقامــة وتشــغيل مطبعــة للطباعــة بجميــع‬ ‫أنواعهــا والتغليــف والتجليــد بجميــع‬ ‫أنواعــه وطباعــة وإنتاج كافة مــواد التعبئة‬

‫وكذلــك إنتــاج العلــب والعبــوات بكافــة‬ ‫أنواعهــا الكرتونيــة والبالســتيكية‪.‬‬ ‫للطباعــة‬

‫شــركة الشــروق الحديثــة‬ ‫والتغليــف (بعــد االندماج)‬ ‫تم أندماج شــركة مطابع الشــروق وشركة‬ ‫الشــروق الحديثــة للطباعــة والتغليــف‬ ‫طبق ـا ً لقــرار الهيئــة العامــة لســوق المــال‬ ‫بتاريــخ ‪ 15‬نوفمبــر ‪ 2001‬وقرار الجمعية‬ ‫العامــة غيــر العاديــة للشــركتين بتار يــخ‬ ‫‪ 23‬ديســمبر ‪ 2001‬تم اندماج الشــركتين‬ ‫وذلــك اعتبــارا من ‪ 31‬ديســمبر ‪.2000‬‬ ‫شــركة مطابــع الشــروق ( الشــركة‬ ‫المندمجة)‬ ‫تأسســت شــركة مطابــع الشــروق يف ‪31‬‬ ‫ديســمبر ‪ 1975‬كشــركة توصيــة بســيطة‪.‬‬ ‫وقــد تحولــت إيل شــركة مســاهمة مصريــة‬ ‫بنظــام االســتثمار الداخلــي وذ لــك طبقــا‬ ‫ألحــكام القوانيــن الســارية يف جمهوريــة‬ ‫مصــر العربيــة ووفقــا ألحــكام القانــون‬ ‫‪ 230‬لســنة ‪ 1989‬والئحتــه التنفيذيــة‬ ‫مــع مراعــاة أحــكام القانون رقم ‪ 95‬لســنة‬ ‫‪ 1992‬والئحتــه التنفيذ يــة وذ لــك بموجــب‬ ‫قــرار الســيد وزيــر االقتصــاد والتجــارة‬ ‫الداخليــة رقــم ‪ 559‬لســنة ‪ 1994‬وقــد‬ ‫بدأت الشــركة يف مزاولة نشــاطها كشــركة‬ ‫مســاهمة مصريــة اعتبــارا مــن أول يونيــو‬ ‫‪ 1995‬وذلــك بغــرض إقا مــة مطابــع‬ ‫للطباعــة الثقافيــة والفنيــة والصناعيــة‬ ‫والتجليــد الفنــي والتغليــف (طباعــة‬ ‫الكرتــون) والجمــع التصو يــري وطبــع‬

‫األوفســت وجمــع المــازم ويجــوز للشــركة‬ ‫القيــام بمشــروعات أخــري وتعديــل‬ ‫غرضهــا يف إ طــار أحــكام قانــون االســتثمار‬ ‫رقــم ‪ 230‬لســنة ‪ 1989‬بشــرط موافقــة‬ ‫الهيئــة العامــة لالســتثمار‪ .‬علم ـا ً بــأن‬ ‫مســاهمة الشــركة يف رأس مــال شــركة‬ ‫الشــروق الحديثــة بلغــت ‪ 97%‬يف ذلــك‬ ‫الوقت‪.‬‬

‫إطالق «دار المحيط» للنشر من إمارة‬ ‫الفجيرة‬

‫أطلقــت يف الفجيــرة «دار المحيــط للنشــر»‬ ‫افتراض ّي ـا ً مــن خــال جلســة «زووم» خــال‬ ‫األســبوع الماضى وشــارك ىف هذة الجلسة‬ ‫د‪ .‬ســليمان الجاســم الــذي يصــدر كتابــه‬ ‫قص ـ ُة‬ ‫ضمــن منشــورات الــدار «الفجيــر ُة‪ّ ..‬‬ ‫مدينــة»‪ ،‬ومحمــد حمــدان بــن جــرش الــذي‬ ‫يصــدر كتابــه لألطفــال «محكم ـ ُة الحيوان»‪،‬‬ ‫والمهندســة رجــاء مــاح التــي يصــدر‬ ‫ـك معنــى‬ ‫كتابهــا لألطفــال‬ ‫ـرح لـ َ‬ ‫ْ‬ ‫«دعنــي أشـ ْ‬ ‫الخلود»‪.‬‬

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‫تســعى دار المحيــط للنشــر لتكــون ل ِبنــة‬ ‫مهمــة يف صــرح عالم النشــر‪ ،‬وتكمل عملها‬ ‫ّ‬ ‫يف خلق قنوات التواصل بين عوالم الكتب‬ ‫ووســائطها المختلفــة ســواء عــن طريــق‬ ‫النشــر باللغــة العرب ّيــة‪ ،‬أم مترجمــة عــن‬ ‫لغات أخرى‪.‬‬ ‫قالــت منــال النقبــي‪ ،‬مديــرة الــدار‪« :‬إن‬

‫دار المحيط تشــكل نقلة نوعية يف المشــهد‬ ‫الثقــايف ليــس فقط يف إمــارة الفجيرة بل يف‬ ‫اإلمــارات ك ّلهــا مــن خــال تن ـ ّوع المحتــوى‪،‬‬ ‫والمواهــب المحتضنــة‪ ،‬والدعم الالمحدود‪،‬‬ ‫والبحــث عــن المم ّيــز‪ .‬ك ّلهــا عوامــل تنبــئ‬ ‫بالجميل المقبل»‪.‬‬ ‫تهتــم الــدار بأرشــفة المــوروث الشــعبي‬ ‫اإلمــارايت‪ ،‬فالمحافظــة علــى الهويّــة والقيــم‬ ‫ـتضم الدار‬ ‫اإلماراتيــة إحــدى ركائــز الــدار‪ .‬سـ‬ ‫ّ‬ ‫أيضا ً «نادي القراءة»‪ ،‬حيث تدور الحوارات‬

‫حــول الكتــب‪ .‬يقــول د‪ .‬شــاكر نــوري مديــر‬ ‫«ثمة تســاؤالت‬ ‫تحريــر دار المحيــط للنشــر‪ّ :‬‬ ‫عــدة تطرحهــا علينــا ظــروف النشــر الحالية‪،‬‬ ‫ولك ّنهــا ال تث ّبــط مــن عزائمنــا يف الســير على‬ ‫دروب الكتــاب الصعبــة‪« .‬الكتــاب يعــاين»‬ ‫عبــارة طالمــا ردّدهــا المشــتغلون يف ميدان‬ ‫النشــر العــريب‪ ،‬ســواء تع ّلــق األمــر بتأليفــه‬ ‫أم طباعتــه‪ ،‬إىل جانــب األزمــات األخــرى‬ ‫مثــل العالقــة بيــن الك ّتــاب والق ـ ّراء‪ ،‬وتراجع‬ ‫االهتمام بالمطبوع»‪.‬‬

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‫سفير الدنمارك يزور مجمع الملك فهد‬ ‫لطباعة المصحف الشريف‬

‫زار ســفير مملكــة الدنمــارك لــدى‬ ‫المملكة أوله موســبي اليوم‪ ،‬مجمع الملك‬ ‫فهــد لطباعــة المصحــف الشــريف بمنطقــة‬ ‫المدينــة المنورة‪ ،‬وكان يف اســتقباله األمين‬ ‫العــام للمجمــع الشــيح طــال بــن رازن‬ ‫الرحيلي وعــدد من المتخصصين‪.‬‬ ‫وتجــول الســفير الدنماركــي يف المجمــع‬ ‫وأقســامه واطلــع علــى ســاحة اإلنتــاج كمــا‬ ‫اســتمع إىل شــرح موجــز عــن إصــدارات‬ ‫المجمــع مــن مصاحــف وترجمــات ونشــر‬ ‫رقمــي وآليــات توزيعها واإلمكانــات الكبيرة‬ ‫التــي وفرتها المملكة له‪.‬‬

‫وقــدم الســفير الشــكر الجزيــل لحكومــة‬ ‫المملكــة علــى مــا تقدمه من خدمــة لكتاب‬ ‫للــه‪ ،‬مشــيدا ً بمــا شــاهده مــن تقنيــات‬ ‫وخدمــات متطــورة وحجــم اإلنتاج الســنوي‬ ‫الــذي يزيــد عــن ‪ ١٨‬مليــون نســخة ســنويا ً‬ ‫تقــدم مجانا ً لجميع دول العالم‪.‬‬

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‫السعودية للطباعة والتغليف” تقلص خسائرها السنوية بـ ‪%47%‬‬

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‫أعلنــت الشــركة الســعودية للطباعــة‬ ‫والتغليــف‪ ،‬اليــوم الثالثــاء‪ ،‬عــن النتائــج‬ ‫الماليــة الســنوية لعــام ‪ ،2020‬مقلصــة مــن‬ ‫خسائرها بنسبة ‪.47%‬‬ ‫وقالــت الشــركة إن خســائرها بلغــت‬ ‫‪ 20.54‬مليــون ريــال‪ ،‬مقابــل ‪ 38.76‬مليــون‬ ‫ريال خالل نفس الفترة من العام الماضي‪.‬‬ ‫ويعــود الســبب الرئيــس يف انخفــاض‬ ‫اجمــايل الربــح اىل االنخفــاض يف المبيعــات‪،‬‬ ‫كمــا يعــود االرتفــاع يف الربــح التشــغيلي‬ ‫إىل تقليــص مصاريــف البيــع والتســويق‬ ‫والمصاريــف العموميــة واإلداريــة‪ ،‬ويعــود‬ ‫االنخفــاض يف صــايف الخســارة خــال العــام‬ ‫المــايل ‪ 2020‬مقارنــة مــع صــايف الخســارة‬ ‫خــال العــام المــايل ‪ 2019‬إىل األســباب‬ ‫الســابقة باإلضافــة إىل االنخفــاض يف‬ ‫مصاريف التمويل‪.‬‬ ‫وبلغــت المبيعــات خــال ‪ 2020‬نحــو‬ ‫‪ 767.69‬مليــون ريــال مقابــل ‪924.34‬‬ ‫مليــون ريــال للفتــرة المماثلــة مــن العــام‬

‫السابق بانخفاض ‪.16.95%‬‬ ‫وبلــغ مجمــوع حقــوق المســاهمين خالل‬ ‫الفتــرة الحاليــة ‪ 702.74‬مليــون ريال مقابل‬ ‫‪ 0723.9‬مليــون ريــال للفتــرة المماثلــة‬ ‫مــن العــام الســابق‪ ،‬وذلــك بانخفــاض قــدره‬ ‫‪.2.92%‬‬ ‫وبلغــت الخســائر المتراكمة ‪ 6.14‬مليون‬

‫ريــال وهــي تمثــل نســبة ‪ 1.02%‬مــن راس‬ ‫المال‪.‬‬ ‫وبلــغ إجمــايل الخســارة الشــاملة خــال‬ ‫الفتــرة الحاليــة ‪ 21.16‬مليــون ريــال مقابــل‬ ‫‪ 31.21‬مليــون ريــال للفتــرة المماثلــة مــن‬ ‫العــام الســابق‪ ،‬وذلــك بانخفــاض قــدرة‬ ‫‪.32.19%‬‬

‫توفــر دي يت إم للعمــاء كل مــا يلزم لطباعة الملصقات الخاصة بهم وهى‪،‬‬ ‫طابعات الملصقات بإستخدام تقنية نفث الحبر أو الليزر الملون أو تقنية إل‬ ‫إي دي الرقمية‪ ،‬وحلول البرامج المخصصة‪ ،‬وحلول نقاط البيع‪ ،‬والملحقات‬

‫طابعة البطاقات والشعارات الملونة دي يت إم سي إكس ‪ 68‬إي المقدمة‬ ‫بواسطة شركة دي يت إم األلمانية‬

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‫دي يت إم هى شركة متخصصة ىف مجال حلول الطباعة‪،‬‬ ‫تتميــز بقدرتهــا الغيــر عاديــة على تحويل أى فكــرة إىل واقع‬ ‫مادى ملموس ذات قيمة مضافة إىل مجال صناعة الطباعة‪.‬‬ ‫فقد إستطاعت دي يت إم التى ُتعد إحدى الشركات الرائدة‬ ‫على المستوى العالمى أن تقدم الجودة والتميز من خالل‬ ‫منتجاتها إىل صناعة الطباعة وذلك على الصعيد العالمى‪.‬‬ ‫دي يت إم تقــع ىف ألمانيــا‪ ،‬وهــى متخصصــة ىف تصنيــع‬ ‫المعــدات األصليــة الدوليــة منــذ أكثــر مــن ‪ 30‬عــام‪ .‬وخــال‬ ‫هذة الســنوات إســتطاعت دي يت إم ان تنموبشــكل ســريع‬ ‫وتتحــول مــن مســتودع إىل شــريك موثــوق ومــزود حلــول‬ ‫ألنظمــة الطباعــة المتخصصــة باإلضافــة إىل القيــام بتطويــر‬ ‫حلول فردية لعملية الطباعة وأجهزة الكمبيوتر‪ ،‬وذلك منذ‬ ‫عام ‪.1986‬‬ ‫وباإلضافــة إىل تقديــم منتجاتهــا الخاصــة‪ ،‬تعمــل دي يت‬ ‫المصنعــة المعروفــة مثــل‪،‬‬ ‫إم بشــكل وثيــق مــع الشــركات ُ‬ ‫بريمييــرا تكنولوجــى إنــك‪ ،‬وأوكــي للصناعــات األلكترونيــة‪،‬‬ ‫وذلــك لتوفيــر أفضــل حلــول طباعــة ممكــن لصناعــة‬ ‫الملصقــات ونقــاط البيــع وتطبيقــات البيــع بالتجزئــة‪ .‬هــذه‬ ‫المنتجــات والخدمــات تقدمهــا الشــركة مــن خــال بائعــي‬ ‫التجزئة والموزعين المعتمدين يف أوروبا والشــرق األوســط‬ ‫وأفريقيا‪.‬‬ ‫وكمــا نعلــم‪ ،‬انــه غالبــا مــا يجــد مصنعــو أي نــوع مــن‬ ‫المنتجات أنفسهم يف حاجة إىل ملصقات للمنتجات تكون‬ ‫صغيرة أو متوسطة الحجم وكذلك تكون ذات ألوان كاملة‬ ‫ومخصصــة‪ .‬وبالتأكيــد فــإن وضــع الملصقــات ذات األلــوان‬ ‫األكثــر احترافيــة علــى المنتجــات ســيؤدى إىل تمييزهــا عــن‬ ‫غيرهــا‪ .‬وهذا مهم جدا‪ ،‬وبشــكل خــاص للمصنعين الصغار‬ ‫الذيــن يمكنهــم زيــادة مبيعاتهم من خــال تمييز منتجاتهم‬ ‫مــن خــال التعبئــة والتغليــف المبتكرة ووضــع الملصقات‬ ‫المصممــة بشــكل إحتــراىف‪ .‬كمــا أن ذلــك يســمح لكافــة‬ ‫المصنعين بتقديم منتجات مناسبة للمستهلكين‪.‬‬ ‫ُ‬

‫وباختيار إحدى ماكينات طابعات الملصقات المقدمة من شركة دي يت إم‬ ‫فإنك ستمتلك العديد من المزايا‪:‬‬ ‫ طباعــة الملصقــات بطريقــة ســهلة ىف أى وقــت وبــأى كميــة‪ ،‬بدايــة مــن‬ ‫طباعة ملصق واحد إىل االف الملصقات‪ ،‬وذلك ىف المرة الواحد‪.‬‬ ‫ طباعة ملصقات بطريقة سريعة دون الحاجة إىل إنتظار أوقات التسليم‪.‬‬ ‫ التفاعــل بســرعة ومرونــة مــع تغييــرات الســوق أو العوامــل أخــرى مثل‬ ‫المقومات المتغيرة‪.‬‬ ‫ تحقيــق الكفــاءة ىف التكاليــف مــن خــال انخفــاض التكلفة لــكل ملصق‪،‬‬ ‫حا أعلى بالنسبة ل ُلمنتِج‪.‬‬ ‫مما يعني رب ً‬ ‫ تقديم قيمة مضافة حقيقية للعمالء من خالل تقديم منتجات مخصصة‬ ‫لكل فئة من المستهلكين‪.‬‬ ‫ تقــدم ميــزة الــكل يف واحــد أو "المجموعــة الكاملــة" بمــا يف ذلــك األجهزة‬ ‫وبرامج الجرافيك االحترافية الخاصة بتصميم الملصقات‪.‬‬ ‫ توفر جميع الطابعات أقصى أداء وجودة طباعة متميزة‪.‬‬

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‫الخاصة مثل أدوات تطبيق الملصقات‪ ،‬وآالت‬ ‫طباعــة ملصقــات مــن ورق القصديــر‪ ،‬ومجموعــة واســعة مــن منتجــات دي يت إم‬ ‫المعتمدة‪ ،‬ومخزون مستلزمات اصلية لطباعة الملصقات‪ ،‬يشتمل على مواد نفث‬ ‫الحبر والحبر الجاف‪ ،‬وذلك متوفر بأي حجم أو شكل‪.‬‬

‫يعتبــر كال مــن طابعتيــن الملصقــات الملونــة دي يت إم ســي إكــس ‪ 68‬إي‪ ،‬وإل‬ ‫إكــس‪10 6‬إي بــرو‪ ،‬أحــدث االبتــكارات يف صناعــة طباعة الملصقــات وقد تم طرحهم‬ ‫من قبل شركة بريمييرا تكنولوجى إنك‪ .‬وتعتبر طابعة دي يت إم سي إكس ‪ 68‬إي‪،‬‬ ‫هى أصغر طابعة ملصقات ملونة ىف العالم وتساعد الشركات على إنتاج ملصقات‬ ‫وبطاقــات ملونــة احترافيــة‪ ،‬كــم انهــا متعــددة االســتخدامات‪ ،‬وذلــك يزيــد مــن تأثيــر‬ ‫ً‬ ‫مقارنة بالمطبوعات الحرارية القياسية ذات اللون األبيض واألسود‪ .‬ومن‬ ‫اإلعالنات‬ ‫ثم فهى الحل المثايل والســريع والمدمج لإلنتاج وأيضا من أجل وأيضا أفضل حل‬ ‫لتطبيقات نقاط البيع واألجهزة الالزمة لتشغيل هذة النقاط‪.‬‬

‫يوضــح أندريــاس هوفمــان‪ ،‬المديــر اإلداري‬ ‫لشــركة دي يت إم "بفضــل شــغفنا بالحلــول‬ ‫المخصصــة‪ ،‬أصبحنــا متخصصيــن يف المنتجــات‬ ‫المتخصصة‪ .‬منذ عام ‪ ،2013‬ومن ثم قمنا بتطوير‬ ‫حلــول الطباعــة المســتخدمة مــن قبــل الشــركات‬ ‫المصنعــة المعروفــة يف صناعــة المــواد الغذائيــة‬ ‫ومستحضرات التجميل‪ ،‬وهدفنا هو إيجاد التوافق‬ ‫المثايل يف األجهزة والبرامج والمستلزمات لوضع‬ ‫أفكار عمالئنا يف الطباعة "‪.‬‬

‫إل إكــس‪10 6‬إي‪ ،‬هــى طابعــة مكتبيــة باأللوان الكاملة للملصقــات‪ ،‬كما انها أداة‬ ‫قطع تجمع بين طباعة الملصقات يتقنية الطباعة‬ ‫النافثــة للحبــر وآليــة القطــع الرقمية المدمجة‪ ،‬مما يســمح للمســتخدمين بإنتاج‬ ‫الملصقات بأي شكل وحجم‪ .‬باإلضافة إىل ذلك‪ ،‬تتميز بطباعة نافثة للحبر باأللوان‬ ‫بدقــة طباعــة تصــل إىل ‪ 4800‬نقطــة لــكل بوصة بدون أشــرطة أفقيــة أوصبغة قابلة‬ ‫للتغيير أو أحبار صبغية‪.‬‬

‫طابعة الملصقات الملونة إل إكس‪10 6‬إي المقدمة بواسطة بريمييرا تكنولوجى‬

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‫تماما وفريدة من نوعها للغاية تسمح للمطابع‬ ‫أما بالنسبة إليدييه‪ ،‬فهى جديدة‬ ‫ً‬ ‫بالتفكيــر خــارج الصنــدوق‪ ،‬وهــى الطابعــة المكتبيــة األوىل والوحيــدة ىف العالــم‬ ‫المعتمــدة مــن جــى إم يب‪ ،‬وإن إس إف‪ ،‬للطباعــة مباشــرة علــى الحلويــات والكعــك‬ ‫والمــواد الغذائيــة األخــرى‪ .‬ومــن الجديــر بالذكــر ان الصــور المطبوعــة بواســطة هــذة‬ ‫الطابعــة مفعمــة بالحيــاة واأللــوان مقاومــة للمســح ومطابقــة للمعايــر القياســيىة‬ ‫لأللــون "آى ســي ســي"‪ .‬ونظ ـ ًرا ألن التخصيــص أمــر أساســي ومطلوب بشــدة‪ ،‬فإن‬ ‫هذة الطابعة هي األداة المثالية لدور الطباعة لتوسيع أعمالهم‪.‬‬

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‫وزير الثقافة السعودى يحدد أكتوبر موعدا لمعرض الرياض للكتاب ‪..‬‬ ‫أعلــن األميــر بدر بن عبــدهللا بن فرحان وزير‬ ‫الثقافــة عــن تنظيم معــرض الرياض الدويل‬ ‫للكتاب بحلة جديدة يف الفترة من ‪ 1‬إىل ‪10‬‬ ‫أكتوبر المقبل‪.‬‬ ‫ونشــر وزيــر الثقافة إعالن موعد النســخة‬ ‫المقبلة من المعرض يف حســابه الشخصي‬ ‫علــى تويتــر حيــث كتــب ‪«:‬بحلــة جديــدة‪..‬‬ ‫معــرض الريــاض الــدويل للكتــاب يف أكتوبــر‬ ‫القادم»‪.‬‬ ‫فيمــا جــاء يف التفاصيــل التــي حملهــا‬ ‫اإلعــان ‪«:‬أعلنــت هيئــة األدب والنشــر‬ ‫والترجمــة عــن تأجيــل موعــد إقامــة معرض‬ ‫الريــاض الــدويل للكتــاب إىل شــهر أكتوبــر‬ ‫المقبــل بـ ً‬ ‫ـدل مــن الموعــد المقــرر ســاب ًقا يف‬ ‫شــهر أبريــل‪ ،‬وذلــك ألســباب احترازيــة للحد‬ ‫من انتشار فيروس كورونا المستجد»‪.‬‬ ‫وأضــاف البيان‪ «:‬تتوىل الهيئة مســؤولية‬ ‫تنظيــم المعرض للمرة األوىل‪ ،‬بهوية جديدة‬ ‫تســعى من خاللها إىل تعزيز مكانته بوصفه‬ ‫وجهة ثقافية مرموقة يف العالم العريب»‪.‬‬ ‫وتضمنــت التفاصيــل أن الهيئــة تســعى‬

‫مــن خــال قــرار تأجيــل المعــرض إىل‬ ‫االســتجابة للتحذيــرات الرســمية وتطبيــق‬ ‫كافــة االحتــرازات الوقائيــة المقــررة مــن‬ ‫الجهــات الصحيــة المعنيــة باالضافــة إىل‬ ‫توفير الظروف المالئمة لزيارة آمنة وصحية‬ ‫لجميع المستفيدين من المعرض‪.‬‬ ‫وحظيــت تغريــدة وزيــر الثقافــة بتفاعــل‬ ‫كبيــر من خالل الــردود التي تصدرها تعليق‬

‫تركي آل الشــيخ رئيس هيئة الترفيه‪ ،‬الذي‬ ‫أبــدى اعجابه بما ســمعه عن االســتعدادات‬ ‫لتنظيــم معــرض الريــاض الــدويل للكتــاب‬ ‫وتمنــى أن يكــون قــد انتهــى مــن طباعــة‬ ‫روايتــه األوىل لعرضهــا فيــه حيــث كتــب يف‬ ‫حســابه الشــخصي ‪«:‬اللــي ســمعته عــن‬ ‫االستعدادات سمو األمير بيكون شي مبهر‬ ‫… ويــارب روايتــي األوىل تكــون خلصــت مــن‬ ‫الطباعة وأعرضها فيه»‪.‬‬

‫إنطالق مؤتمر وجوائز مستخدمي التصنيع التجميعى‬ ‫يف الشرق األوسط وأفريقيا ‪ 2021‬من مدينة دىب‬ ‫يعقــد مؤتمــر “مســتخدمي التصنيــع‬ ‫التجميعــى يف الشــرق األوســط وأفريقيــا”‬ ‫يف الفتــرة مــن ‪ 13‬إىل ‪ 14‬ســبتمبر ‪2021‬‬ ‫ىف مدينــة ديب‪ ،‬باإلمــارات العربيــة المتحــدة‪،‬‬ ‫كمــا أنــه ســيحتوى بشــكل أساســي علــى‬ ‫العديــد من العروض التقديمية والمعارض‬ ‫وإنطالق حفل توزيع الجوائز‪.‬‬ ‫يعتبــر المؤتمــر بمثابــة منصــة للباحثيــن‬ ‫الجــدد إلتاحــة الفرصــة لهم خــال عام‪2021‬‬ ‫‪ ،‬يحمــل كال مــن المؤتمــر والجوائــز‪ ،‬وكذلــك‬ ‫المعرض الذي سيستمر لمدة يومين تجربة‬ ‫جديدة يف التعلم واالستكشاف وبناء فرص‬ ‫جديدة‪ .‬حيث يوجد أداء مســتمر ومتميز يف‬

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‫استكشــاف البعــد الجديــد للطباعــة ثالثيــة‬ ‫األبعــاد مــن قبــل المتخصصيــن‪ ،‬حيــث تــم‬ ‫التطلــع اىل التقنبيــات الرباعية والخماســية‬ ‫األبعــاد‪ .‬وهــذة التقنيــات لــم تعــد محصــورة‬ ‫ىف مجــال الرعايــة الصحيــة والطيــران فقــط‪،‬‬ ‫ـريعا‪،‬‬ ‫فقــد شــهدت مؤخــرا نم ـ ًوا هائ ـا ً سـ ً‬ ‫وف ًقــا للجوانــب المســتقبلية التــي تحملهــا‬ ‫التكنولوجيــا ىف إستكشــاف إســتخدامات‬ ‫وإمكانيات جديدة‪.‬‬ ‫ســيقدم المؤتمــر رؤى تقدميــة ومعرفــة‬ ‫متطــورة حــول ثــورة تكنولوجيــة جديــدة‬ ‫ســتقتحم جميع المجاالت‪ ،‬مع قادة وخبراء‬ ‫الســوق العالميــة مــن خــال التواصل تحت‬ ‫مظلة واحدة‪.‬‬ ‫ســيتيح المؤتمــر بنــاء عالقــة‬ ‫فريــدة بيــن العمــاء والحاضريــن‬ ‫للتواصــل والنمــو جن ًبــا إىل جنــب‬ ‫ودخــول التنبــؤات المســتقبلية‬ ‫إىل حيــز الواقــع‪ ،‬باإلضافــة إىل عقد‬ ‫اإلتفاقيــات والصفقــات الكبيــرة‬ ‫وتحقيــق حــدث ذات قيمة يف بيئة‬ ‫المعامــات فيمــا بيــن المنشــآت‬ ‫العنــان‬ ‫وإطــاق‬ ‫التجاريــة‪،‬‬ ‫لتكنولوجيــا التصنيــع التجميعــى‬ ‫أو ثــاىث األبعــاد ىف إقتحــام جميــع‬

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‫إرتفاع مستمر ىف سعر الورق بشكل عالمى‬ ‫نعلم جميعا أن الورق هو الركيزة األساسية ىف عملية الطباعة‪ ،‬وبالطبع فإن أى تقلب ىف سعره سيؤثر على كافة المراحل‬ ‫اإلنتاجية ىف جميع دور الطباعة‪ ،‬ومن ثم التأثير على حجم قاعدة العمالء الخاصة بهم‪ .‬ومن المؤكد الجدير بالذكر‪ ،‬أن جائحة كورونا‬ ‫قد تسببت يف تحوالت جذرية يف أنماط التشغيل فيما يخص صناعة الورق‪ ،‬وذلك قد أدى بدوره إىل تقلبات كثيره يف جانب‬ ‫العرض والطلب على المادة الخام “اللباب” التى يصنع منها الورق وأيضا ذيادة سعر الورق‪ ،‬وذلك ادى إىل حدوث زيادة متكررة‬ ‫يف األسعار‪.‬‬ ‫ولقد صرح العديد من مصنعي الورق عن زيادة ىف األسعار‪ ،‬حيث أعلنت شركة “سايب أوروبا عن زيادة ىف تكلفة جميع أنواع‬ ‫التغليف والورق المستخدم ىف هذة العملية‪ ،‬وذلك بنسبة تتراوح من ‪ ،٪11-7‬اعتبا ًرا من ‪ 1‬أبريل ‪.2021‬‬ ‫وبذلك فإن كال من هذة العوامل التى تتلخص ىف‪ ،‬اإلرتفاع الحاد يف تكاليف المدخالت‪ ،‬وخاصة األرتفاع ىف سعر الورق والطاقة‬ ‫الالزمة لعمليات التصنيع باإلضافة إىل ذيادة معدالت الشحن المرتفعة بسبب القيود اللوجستية العالمية‪ ،‬قد أدت إىل حدوث‬ ‫زيادات يف األسعار بشكل ال مفر منه‪.‬‬ ‫وقد أعلنت شركة “سونوكو” بشكل سابق أنها سترفع سعر جميع أنواع لفائف الورق المقوى وكذلك المواد الخام التى تدخل‬ ‫ىف تصنيعه‪ ،‬بنسبة ‪ 6‬يف المائة كحد أدىن‪ ،‬وذلك يسري على جميع الشحنات داخل الواليات المتحدة وكندا‪ ،‬إعتبارا من ‪ 1‬مارس‬ ‫الماضى ‪.2021‬‬ ‫وقد ذكر مايك طومبسون‪ ،‬مدير المبيعات والتسويق لقسم لفائف الورق المقوى‪ ،‬لدى شركة “سونوكو” الموجودة ىف أمريكا‬ ‫الشمالية أن هذه الزيادة الملحوظة يف األسعار حدثت بسبب الزيادات المستمرة يف تكاليف الورق المقوى غير المصقول المعاد‬ ‫تدويره‪ ،‬وهو يعد المادة الخام األولية لدي شركتنا‪ .‬باإلضافة إىل أن حجم الطلب على الورق المقوى المعاد تدويره أصبح قويًا‬ ‫للغاية‪ ،‬كما أن حجم العرض يف السوق محدود جدا‪.‬‬ ‫والجدير بالذكر أن “سونوكو” تعتبر أكبر منتج للفائف التى ترتكز على الورق كمادة اولية‪ ،‬وذلك على مستوى أمريكا الشمالية‪،‬‬ ‫حيث أن هذة اللفائف ُتستخدم يف صناعة الورق والمنسوجات واألغطية البالستيكية واألشرطة والصناعات المتخصصة‪.‬‬ ‫وقد أعلنت شركة “ميتسوبيشى هاى تك” أنها ستزيد سعر الورق الذى يستخدم مع الطابعات النافثة للحبر بنسبة ‪ ٪5‬اعتبا ًرا‬ ‫من ‪ 1‬مايو ‪ .2021‬وقد زاد أيضا مصنع الورق األلماين فيلد موهل من أسعار أوراق الملصقات بنسبة ‪ .٪8‬أما بالنسبة للشركات‬ ‫األخرى مثل شركة فيرسو‪ ،‬ودومتار‪ ،‬والشركة الدولية لصناعة الورق‪ ،‬وإن دى لصناعة الورق‪ ،‬فإنهم قد قاموا برفع أسعارهم‬ ‫أوإنهم سيقوموا بتغييرات ىف األسعار خالل األشهر القليلة المقبلة‪.‬‬ ‫السبب يرجع إىل الزيادة ىف سعر اللباب‬ ‫جاء ىف التقرير األخير لشركة “مودى” المتخصصة ىف التحليالت المالية‪ ،‬إنه فيما يخص صناعة الورق والتعبئة والتغليف‬ ‫مصنعى الورق بشكل عالمى‪ ،‬وذلك قبل إحتساب الفوائد والضرائب‬ ‫ومنتجات الغابات‪ ،‬فإنه من المتوقع أن ترتفع أرباح ُ‬ ‫واإلهالك واالستهالك‪ ،‬بنسبة تتراوح من ‪ ٪10- ٪8‬خالل عام ‪ .2021‬كما ذكرت أن األسباب الكامنة وراء ارتفاع األسعاره هو ارتفاع‬ ‫تكاليف اللباب واأللياف والمواد الكيميائية وتكلفة الطاقة والنقل‪.‬‬ ‫للمصنعين المصنفين داخل أمريكا الشمالية وأوروبا‬ ‫الموحدة‬ ‫كما ذكرت “مودى” أنه من المتوقع أن تزيد األرباح التشغيلية‬ ‫ُ‬ ‫المصنعين المصنفين يف أمريكا الالتينية بنسبة‬ ‫بنسبة تتراوح من ‪ ٪7- ٪5‬يف كال المنطقتين‪ ،‬كما أنه من المتوقع أن ترتفع أرباح ُ‬ ‫تتراوح من ‪ ٪30- ٪25‬خالل الفترة المشمولة بالتوقعات‪ .‬كما يعود االنتعاش الكبير يف صناعة اللباب والورق يف أمريكا الالتينية‬ ‫بشكل أساسي إىل االرتفاع الحاد يف أسعار لباب األوكالبتوس المبيض‪.‬‬ ‫ومن المتوقع أن يظل الطلب قويا ً يف عام ‪ 2021‬حيث يستمر المستهلكون يف الشراء عبر اإلنترنت‪ ،‬مع شحن العناصر بشكل‬ ‫فردي إىل منازل المستهلكين‪ ،‬بدال ً من الشحن بالجملة إىل منافذ البيع بالتجزئة‪ ،‬مما يتطلب المزيد من التغليف الوقايئ‪.‬‬ ‫باإلضافة إىل ذلك‪ ،‬سيستمر دعم الطلب من خالل بدائل التغليف الوريق للتعبئة البالستيكية ذات االستخدام الواحد‪ .‬ومع ذلك‪،‬‬ ‫ذكرت شركة “مودى” أن الطلب على المنتجات الورقية سيعود إىل طبيعته خالل عام ‪ ،2021‬وذلك بعد ارتفاعه بشكل حاد خالل‬ ‫العام الماضي بسبب الذعر أثناء عمليات الشراء يف بداية حدوث الوباء‪.‬‬

‫ص‪.‬ب‪ ،502183 .‬مدينة ديب لإلعالم‬ ‫ديب‪ ،‬اإلمارات العربية المتحدة‬ ‫هاتف‪+971 4 391 1210 :‬‬ ‫فاكس‪+971 4 390 9561 :‬‬ ‫البريد اإللكتروين‪info@meprinter.com :‬‬ ‫مدير النشر للمجموعة‬ ‫مرتضى كريميان‬ ‫‪karimian@meprinter.com‬‬ ‫هيئــة التح ــرير‬ ‫المحرر ‪ -‬القسم اإلنجليزي‬ ‫‪editor@meprinter.com‬‬ ‫المحرر التقني – القسم العريب‬ ‫د‪ .‬جورج نوبار سيمونيان‬ ‫‪goujy@dircon.co.uk‬‬ ‫المحرر التقني – القسم اإلنجليزي‬ ‫رود هايز‬ ‫‪rod.hayes@me.com‬‬ ‫المختصون المشاركون يف التحرير‬ ‫فرانك رومانو (الواليات المتحدة)‬ ‫‪fxrppr@rit.edu‬‬ ‫لوريل برونر (المملكة المتحدة)‬ ‫‪lb@digitaldots.org‬‬ ‫د‪ .‬نيكوالس هيلموث‬ ‫‪nhellmuth@flaar.org‬‬ ‫مدير اإلعالنات‬ ‫ريجي ماثيوس‬ ‫‪+971505475110‬‬ ‫‪meprinter@meprinter.com‬‬ ‫اإلعالنات المبوبة واإلشتراكات‬ ‫‪+971 4 391 1210‬‬ ‫‪+971 50 528 9267‬‬ ‫‪info@meprinter.com‬‬ ‫توجه المراسالت إىل العنوان التايل‪:‬‬ ‫مجلة ‪ME Printer‬‬ ‫ص‪.‬ب ‪ ،502183‬مدينة ديب لإلعالم‬ ‫بناية رقم ‪ ،9‬مكتب رقم ‪214‬‬ ‫ديب‪ ،‬اإلمارات العربية المتحدة‬

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‫افتتاح مجمع اإلصدارات المؤمنة والذكية‪ ..‬صرح جديد لدعم التحول الرقمى‬

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The World’s Smallest High Performance A4 Colour Printer

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ME‌Printer April - May 2021

OKI’s C650 delivers the performance, media handling and cost-efficiency of a class-leading workgroup device in the format of an A4 colour desktop printer. Designed for any business that has limited space, the C650 will fit comfortably in a confined area, while printing high volumes quickly and to a professional quality.

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